USB cable stuck inside the "curious" penis of the boy

The doctors removed a smartphone charging cable from a "curious" teenager penis after he inserted it into his urethra and that he l & # 39; He knotted in his bladder.

The 13-year-old, whose name was not revealed He inserted half of the USB cable – about 20 centimeters (7.8 inches) – up to his penis before realizing that he could not remove it anymore.

His worried parents took him to a local hospital in Linkou County in northeastern China. Heilongjiang Province, where doctors applied lubrication to remove the cable

However, when this proved unsuccessful and caused intense pain to the teenager, he was transferred to the 39, Harbin Children's Hospital the next day. Xu Liyan, the resident urologist of the facility, said, "He cut one end of the cable and inserted it into his urethra."

She added: "The cable reached his bladder, where he tangled and ended up in a knot, so when he tried to remove it, he got stuck."

Dr. Xu said she and she The team had no choice but to operate the boy.

They burst into his bladder to find the cable tied, cut the tangled section and removed the cord remaining in his urethra in the same way as the boy.

who claimed to be "curious" about his genitals, was released from the hospital on July 3 – just over two weeks after his operation.