Bladder perforation caused by foreign body migration.
Lower urinary tract symptoms is a well known presentation of the presence of foreign bodies inside the bladder. Most such cases are diagnosed by chance, while investigating unrelated conditions. We present the transvesical endoscopic extraction of a surgical sponge that migrated to the bladder six years after an inguinal hernioplasty.
Tornero
J
J
Department of Urology, Fundació Puigvert, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain.
Palou
J
J
Prados
M
M
Salvador
J
J
Vicente
J
J
D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D005548:Foreign-Body Migration / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D015503:Surgical Sponges; D001743:Urinary Bladder / Q000293:injuries*