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The man surnamed Chen said he began to worry when he slipped and hit the edge of a table, and then later started noticing traces of blood in his urine.

The native of Hangzhou City's Yuhang District, in the capital of East China's Zhejiang Province, was too shy to visit a doctor about the issue and decided to run his own diagnostics - with the 18-centimetre (7.09-inch) stainless-steel chopstick.

Chen said he thought his urethra was "broken", so he inserted the tip of the chopstick into his penis to "check", but after ramming it further up his member, he could not get it back out again.

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When he tugged on the stick, it caused him massive amounts of pain, so he eventually gave up visited the Yuhang District Fifth People's Hospital.

Scans of the poor man's privates show the metal stick lodged deep inside him, with medics saying it could have proved fatal if he had continued to push it upwards.

Doctor Ruan Zhixian, who took Chen into surgery and successfully removed the eating utensil, said the chopstick had reached the man's rectal wall.

However, it fortunately did not rupture his rectum, which would have caused large amounts of bleeding and possibly also sent Chen into shock.

Having had the chopstick removed, Chen is now recovering in hospital.

Doctors did not say whether he would suffer any long-term effects from his bizarre injury.