A team of doctors at a hospital in Indonesia had to resort to using a power tool in order to save a man’s genitals, according to an account published in the Urology Case Reports this month.
The unnamed 38-year-old man arrived at a tertiary hospital in Indonesia with a metal ring on his penis, which he became unable to remove by himself.
The patient explained that he put the ring on his sexual organ “to experiment with his friends” the day before, but while he was initially able to remove the ring and put it back on again, at some point the metal band got stuck.
After he started experiencing severe penile pain and swelling, the man eventually went to the hospital where he had his ring removed with the help of a metal grinder and a pair of pliers.
During the procedure, hospital staff inserted a metal plate between the ring and the man’s penile skin to prevent injury and used continuous saline injection to reduce heat.
The authors of the account warn that this particular predicament, known as penile ring entrapment, is a “urological emergency that can lead to ischemic complications such as tissue necrosis or injury, sexual dysfunction, and urinary tract disorders if not managed immediately.”