Chinese doctors successfully removed a three-foot-long phone cable from a pensioner using laser technology in northeast China.

The man, said to be in his 60s, thought of inserting a cable to stop itchiness in the urethra that caused by prostatitis, an inflammation of the prostate.

However, the cable tied a knot in the bladder and caused bleeding when the man tried to pull it out himself.

A Chinese pensioner rushed to a hospital in China with a 3ft long cable stuck in his penis

According to Kankan News, the unnamed pensioner inserted a one-metre-long (3ft) phone charging cable into his penis to relieve the itchiness caused by the inflammation.

He rushed to Dalian Hospital on March 30 and sought for medical help.

Dr Gao Zhanfeng, a urologist at the hospital noticed the cable, measured five millimetres (0.2inches) wide, had tied a knot inside the man's bladder under a scan.

'The knot gets tighter when the patient tried to pull it out. This causes bleeding in the bladder,' said Dr Gao.

The cable got tangled up in the man's bladder and caused bleeding as the man tried to pull

Urologist, Dr Gao, used lasers to cut the cable and removed it from the pensioner's body

The man told the reporter that he took a lesson from the incident and would not do it again

The reporter asked the man: 'Did you sterilise the cable before putting it in?'

'I just roughly washed it under running water,' he answered.

Dr Gao decided to user lasers to cut the knots inside and pulled the cable out by sections.

He said the patient was lucky for not inserting any metal or hard materials, otherwise the bladder could be impaled by the sharp objects.

The pensioner said he took the incident as a lesson and would not do it again.