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Abstract
Objective: Presence of foreign bodies in the rectum is an important reason for emergency surgery. In this study, the implementations in diagnosis and treatments of patients who apply foreign bodies in the rectum and their social statuses are presented with literature. Materials and Methods: The cases diagnosed with a foreign body in the anus or rectum and treated in Akdeniz University Medi- cal Faculty Hospital between the years 2000 and 2012 were retrospectively evaluated. Results: Ten patients were included in this study. The mean age of patients was determined as 51 (1770) years. While nine patients stated that they implemented foreign bodies in the rectum with the purpose of eroticism, jejunostomy for nutritional sup- port led to the obstruction in a female patient, with inoperable gastric carcinoma diagnosis, after it entered the rectum through the upper gastrointestinal system. Six of the nine male patients who implemented a foreign body in the rectum with the purpose of eroticism were living alone. The foreign bodies were removed through anal dilatation in two patients, rectosigmoidoscopy in five patients, laparotomy in three patients (Stripping, colostomy, and Hartman colostomy procedure). Conclusion: It can be considered that middle-aged males living alone tended to these perform actions because 60% of the cases in our study were living alone. Further studies are required for this hypothesis.