Doctors were stunned to discover an eyeliner with a giant bladder stone attached stuck up a dead man’s bum.
The man, in his sixties, had battled intermittent tummy pain for three years and was rushed to hospital after passing out.
Tragically, he later died at the facility.
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Forensic pathologists conducting the post-mortem were shocked to find an aluminium eyeliner inside him.
The pen measured 9cm by 0.8cm, with the brand name still visible, and adhered to it was a massive bladder stone measuring 6.5cm by 6cm by 4cm.
The foreign object had pierced the front wall of his rectum and passed through the back wall of his bladder.
CT image at the bladder and rectum level.CT scan showing an intravesical stone with a rod-like material penetrating the posterior bladder wall into the rectum. Subcutaneous and intravesical emphysema were observed. CT imaging parameters were WW 280, WL 40 in upper image(a), and WW2467, WL981 in lower image (b). (Picture: Jam Press)
One kidney was swollen and reddish, the other pale, while his spleen was enlarged and the tubes carrying urine from his kidneys to his bladder were stretched.
The cause of death was recorded as sepsis due to pyelonephritis of the left kidney, as reported by Need To Know.
He lived with his brother, who found him unconscious.
The man had reported anorexia and diarrhoea two weeks before his death.
Giant bladder stone with the penetrating eyeliner.On the left, the left side is the rectum.and the right side is the bladder. The right shows the eyeliner without the stone.
Medics spent two days trying to revive him without success.
Police launched an investigation into how the eyeliner ended up inside him.
They discovered he often wore women’s clothes and found a vibrator in his bedroom.
Japanese researchers Tadashi Hosoya, Kazuki Harada, and Jun Kanetake noted in a study of the case that “sexual activity should be considered a possible manner of death, even if it took place several years previously”.
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Anterior rectal mucosa (left) and the left side aspect of the opened bladder (right).A silver rod (yellow arrow) penetrating the anterior rectal wall upward to the bladder. A giant bladder stone adhering to the rod penetrating the soft tissue between the bladder and the lower rectum.
