The amount of patients presenting at the emergency hospitals with retained rectal foreign bodies appears recently to have increased. Foreign objects retained in the rectum may result from direct introduction through the anus (more common) or from ingestion. Affected individuals often will make ineffective attempts to extract the object themselves, resulting in additional delay of medical care and potentially increasing the risk of complications. The goals of the radiological patient assessment are to identify the type of object retained, its location and the presence of associated complications. Plain radiographs still play an important role in the assessment of retained rectal foreign bodies.