A man swallowed an imitation Nokia phone whole and required delicate surgery to have it removed.
Nokia mobile phone
Doctors in Kosovo had to act fast to help the unidentified 33-year-old after the mobile had been in his stomach for four days.
The phone is thought to be an L8STAR BM90, a model designed to be a smaller version of the Nokia 3410 and was too large for his system to digest.
This could have led to fatal poisoning with the potential for corrosive battery acid to leak out.
Doctor Skender Teljaku said there were 'no complications during the procedure, which required removing the object in three parts with an endoscopy.
According to the The British Society of Gastroenterology, the most common items mistaken swallowed are buttons and coins, but the 33-year-old is not the first to ingest a mobile phone.
A 2014 case study revealed that a drunken 35-year-old man had swallowed a phone which became lodged in his throat and in 2016 a 29-year-old swallowed their mobile phone, an incident which also required surgery.