Intravesical foreign bodies: a case report and a review of the literature
| Autor: | Emeka Kesieme, Vincent C Onuora, Eshiobo Irekpita, Peter Imomoh |
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| Rok vydání: | 2011 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
Urinary bladder complications treatment business.industry organic chemicals General surgery technology industry and agriculture Electric wire Case Report macromolecular substances General Medicine urologic and male genital diseases intravesical fluids and secretions medicine.anatomical_structure Medicine electric wire business Foreign Bodies |
| Zdroj: | International Medical Case Reports Journal |
| ISSN: | 1179-142X |
| DOI: | 10.2147/imcrj.s18857 |
| Popis: | Aim We report a case of intravesical polyvinyl-coated electric wire in the urinary bladder. Case report A 34-year-old man presented in our clinic with irritative lower urinary tract symptoms. Three weeks earlier he had seen and felt a wire in his urethra of which he was unaware of the origin. Radiologic evaluation revealed an electric wire completely coiled up in the urinary bladder. It was removed through a suprapubic cystotomy. Discussion Patients are usually too ashamed to admit the cause of an intravesical foreign body, which is often sexual or erotic in origin. Radiologic evaluation usually reveals the nature and size of the foreign body in the bladder of patients evaluated for recurrent urinary tract infection. Open surgery or an endoscopic approach may be used for their extraction. |
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