title: A foreign body self-inserted via the urethra into the bladder: pocket battery.
abstract: A 37-year-old male patient who had intense discomfort due to dysuria, pollacuria, was examined and a foreign body was determined in the bladder. This foreign body was a type of pocket battery self inserted compulsively into the bladder by the patient and this is the first published report to our knowledge.
authors.affiliation: Ankara Education and Research Hospital, Department of 2.Urology Clinic, Turkey.
authors.forename: Ali
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ayyildiz
authors.forename: Mesut
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Gürdal
authors.forename: Bariş
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Nuhoğlu
authors.forename: Erim
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Ersoy
authors.forename: Emre
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Huri
authors.forename: Cankon
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Germiyanoğlu
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005547:Foreign Bodies / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D016728:Self-Injurious Behavior; D014521:Urethra; D001743:Urinary Bladder