PICTURES: 19 Most Shocking X-Rays Slide Show (A misplaced flashlight among others)

CBS ^ | 8-2-10 | CBS Staff

[Mikey_1962]

What's the most embarrassing thing you could imagine doing with a can of condensed milk?

How about having to ask a doctor to remove it from your rectum - because you stuck it there in a misguided stab at self-stimulation?

Sounds like fiction, but it happened in real life. CBS News has the X-ray to prove it.

And it's not the only shocking X-ray out there. From screwdrivers in the skull to children impaled on car antennas or with pins caught in their throats, doctors come across some pretty amazing images.

This batch has been generously provided by Dr. Tim B. Hunter, professor of radiology at the University of Arizona, who interesting x-rays.

[Mikey_1962]

I worked in a hospital where X-rays like these were passed around in the ER quite frequently.

[a real Sheila]

a friend told me of a hospital in Atlanta which had a lounge featuring “the wall of shame.” This wall was a conversation piece which contained items which had been removed from patients’ butts.

Another doctor friend told me of having to surgically remove an English Leather (square) bottle from a man’s butt.

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?!!!

[DManA]

It was a million to one shot doc.

[Political Junkie Too]

Was one of those x-rays a bullet in a boob?

-PJ

[True_Kon]

If you think this is scary, you should try stuffing a whole giant pizza in your tummy.....the horror...the horror. ;o)

[null and void]

Just one???

[True_Kon]

Hahahahaha!

[Monterrosa-24]

You should have seen the one of the ARVN soldier with a lump on his side. The X-ray revealed it as an unexploded mortar round. He had been a direct it but the round did not explode and slid in along his ribcage. He had no idea what hit him.

[null and void]

#13

[MrB]

[hometoroost]

Rectum? Damn near killed him.

[SparkyBass]

Immediately reminded me of one Albert Fish at the turn of the century....

Depraved dude...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Fish

[Political Junkie Too]

That's what I thought.

-PJ

[ponygirl]

When my college roommate did her round in the ER, she came home with a story one night about a guy who had come in with a tennis ball, a racquetball and a golf ball up his butt. First he told them he accidentally sat on them in the bathtub. Truth was, he had put them inside a trash bag, stuffed them up in there and the bag broke.

Yikes.

[RnMomof7]

We heard about them on the “floors”

[DManA]

I’m tellin ya Jerry, proctologists have the BEST stories.

[ponygirl]

It’s Fusilli Jerry!

[DManA]

Proctologist: A doctor who puts in a hard day at the orifice.
Proctologist: A brain surgeon for lawyers.

[Slump Tester]

I'm assuming this poofter used plasticizer:

Rectal Impaction Following Enema with Concrete

There was a ping pong ball involved also.

[Monterrosa-24]