title: Skin migration following periurethral polytetrafluorethylene injection for urinary incontinence.
abstract: We present a patient who was treated unsuccessfully for urinary incontinence with the injection of particulate polytetrafluoroethylene (Polytef). Following removal of the resultant periurethral mass she developed fever, malaise, polyatrhopathy, a raised erythrocyte sedimentation rate, and she had a skin rash which contained refractile foreign material surrounded foreign body giant cells.
authors.affiliation: Urology Unit, Women's and Children's, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia.
authors.forename: P A
authors.initials: PA
authors.lastname: Dewan
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Fraundorfer
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D005548:Foreign-Body Migration / Q000139:chemically induced*; D005549:Foreign-Body Reaction / Q000139:chemically induced*; D015745:Granuloma, Foreign-Body / Q000139:chemically induced; D006801:Humans; D007267:Injections / Q000379:methods; D008875:Middle Aged; D011138:Polytetrafluoroethylene / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000009:adverse effects* / Q000627:therapeutic use; D012871:Skin Diseases / Q000139:chemically induced*; D014521:Urethra; D014549:Urinary Incontinence / Q000628:therapy*
chemical_list: D011138:Polytetrafluoroethylene