Romania- It’s a medical mystery that surgeons never got to the bottom of in a hospital casualty room – how a woman patient ended up with a can of hairspray up her backside.

Mirela Gradinaru, 37, turned up at the clinic in Arad, western Romania, in agony begging doctors to help her.

But she refused to say just how the can came to be there even after a successful, delicate operation to remove the aerosol.

Doctor Mirandolina Prisca explained: “We had X-rays done to localise the object and then we carried out the operation. The patient was fine after it.”

“She was very embarrassed. She was clearly in a lot of pain, however it got there.

“This was not just a little can of deodorant, this was a massive can of hairspray,” said one hospital worker.