CLINICAL STUDY OF FOREIGN BODIES IN THE RECTUM

Abstract

Nine patients presenting with foreign bodies in the rectum in a recent 14-year-and-one month period from May. 1986 to June. 1999 are clinically studied, together with 55 patients in the Japanese literature.
There were seven men and two women who ranged in age from 15 to 43 years. The average age was 29.6. The patients presented with complaints such as foreign body in seven cases and abdominal pain in two cases. The most common cause was anal eroticism in eight cases. The patients often came to the hospital at night because of a sense of shame. There were two patients who repeatedly came to the hospital because of foreign bodies through the anus. All foreign bodies (in eight cases) were removed transanally, except one patient whose foreign body (a pencil) was surgically removed because the foreign body caused perforating peritonitis. The foreign objects included spray can in two cases, wire in two cases, and proof, bottles, vibrator, pipe, pencil, and confection caddy in each one case.