In what is believed to be the first case of its kind, doctors pulled a condom from a woman’s appendix.

The 26-year-old came to doctors with stomach pain on the right side of her pelvis, leaving her unable to eat and feeling nauseous.

Following scans at a hospital in Cameroon, the woman was diagnosed with appendicitis and rushed to emergency surgery.

But as they cut into the appendix they discovered the organ had a piece of rubbery material stuck inside it.

Once removed they realized the object was ‘consistent with a condom’.

Detailed in the Journal of Medical Case Reports, the woman later confirmed she had swallowed the condom accidentally during oral sex with her boyfriend.

The Indian-born woman had not sought help after finding fragments of the condom in her stool five days later.

In previous cases doctors have also found items like bullets, fishing lines, screws and teeth caught in the appendix. They can sometimes stay there for years.

Once lodged, the digestive tract is not strong enough to force it back into the intestine and sometimes needs to be surgically removed.