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Urol Case Rep. 2017 Feb 07;11:69-70. doi: 10.1016/j.eucr.2016.12.014. eCollection 2017 Feb.

Screw as a Bladder Foreign Body.

Urology case reports

Seyed Reza Hosseini, Hamed Rezaei, Mohamad Ghasem Mohseni, Hosein Ganjali, Negar Behtash, Mahsa Arzani

Affiliations

  1. Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Sina Hospital, Iran.
  2. Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Iran.

PMID: 28194326 PMCID: PMC5299142 DOI: 10.1016/j.eucr.2016.12.014

Abstract

Foreign bodies in the bladder are among the strangest differential diagnoses in the lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) and may be missed in initial medical evaluations. We present a 63-year-old man who was visited in the emergency department because of obstructive and irritative lower urinary tract symptoms. Two months earlier, he had a pelvic fracture due to motor vehicle accident and underwent an open reduction and internal fixation of the pubic rami and right acetabulum by an anterior ilioinguinal approach. After initial evaluation, an abdominopelvic X-ray revealed a 3 cm screw in the suprapubic area. He underwent urethrocystoscopy and a 3 cm screw was extracted by forceps.

Keywords: Bladder; Foreign body; Iatrogenic; Screw

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