Medical Must-See: Doctors roped into foreign object insertion case

Abdominal ultrasound revealed the bladder was filled with a large object accompanied by acoustic shadows

Just when doctors thought they’d seen it all when it comes to foreign objects in body orifices, along comes a patient with a bladder chock full of skipping rope. 

How or why the 79-year-old man inserted the 2.3m length of nylon — mercifully, with the handles removed — into his urethra remains a mystery.