Abstract
Foreign body in the rectum is rare yet potentially life-threatening condition; fear of social embarrassment causes the patient to delayto seek treatment and even hide the actual history and replace imaging reports, which leads to incorrect diagnosis and eventually thetreatment. In this article, we report the case of a 30 years hepatitis B positive, homosexual male who presented to the departmentwith a chief complaint of pain in the lower abdomen and was diagnosed to have foreign body (pestle) in rectum, which was insertedas a part of sexual adventure and deliberate attempt was made by the patient to replace X-ray films with other patients to misleadthe treating doctor. Finally, the foreign body was removed surgically and was followed by psychiatric evaluation of the patient.
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