title: Electrical wire as a foreign body in a male urethra: a case report.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  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.
  
  
  METHODS
  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.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  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.
authors.affiliation: 1st Department of Urology, University of Athens Medical School, Laiko Hospital, Athens, Greece. gkoutalellis@yahoo.com.
authors.forename: Konstantinos G
authors.initials: KG
authors.lastname: Stravodimos
authors.forename: Georgios
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Koritsiadis
authors.forename: Georgios
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Koutalellis