tailieunhanh - Báo cáo y học: " Electrical wire as a foreign body in a male urethra: a case report"

Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành y học dành cho các bạn tham khảo đề tài: Electrical wire as a foreign body in a male urethra: a case report | Journal of Medical Case Reports BioMed Central Open Access Case report Electrical wire as a foreign body in a male urethra a case report Konstantinos G Stravodimos Georgios Koritsiadis and Georgios Koutalellis Address 1st Department of Urology University of Athens Medical School Laiko Hospital Athens Greece Email Konstantinos G Stravodimos - kgstravod@ Georgios Koritsiadis - koritsiadisdc@ Georgios Koutalellis - gkoutalellis@ Corresponding author Published 3 February 2009 Received 23 May 2008 Journal of Medical Case Reports 2009 3 49 doi 1752-1947-3-49 Accepted 3 February 2009 This article is available from http content 3 1 49 2009 Stravodimos et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract_ Introduction Self-inflicted foreign bodies in the male urethra and urinary bladder are an emergency that urologists may rarely have to face. A case of an electrical wire inserted in the male urethra and coiled in the bladder is presented. Case presentation A 53-year-old male presented with the inability to void and bloody urethral discharge after having introduced an electrical wire in his urethra for masturbation 3 hours earlier. He had made several unsuccessful attempts to remove it. Conclusion The variety of these objects may be impressive and removal of the foreign body may be quite challenging requiring imagination and high-level surgical skills. In this case an electrical wire was used and the diagnostic as well as the therapeutic steps for its removal are presented. Introduction Self-insertion of foreign bodies into the male urethra and urinary bladder for autoerotic .