title: An unusual foreign body in the urinary bladder mimicking a parasitic worm.
abstract: We report an unusual case of a foreign body removed from the urinary bladder of a 63-year-old male which mimicked a parasitic worm. The foreign body was identified as an artificial fishing worm by morphological comparison to a similar commercially produced product and by infrared spectrum analysis.
authors.affiliation: Parasitology Laboratory, Department of Laboratory Medicine & Pathology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA.
authors.forename: Bryan H
authors.initials: BH
authors.lastname: Schmitt
authors.forename: Marc T
authors.initials: MT
authors.lastname: Feder
authors.forename: Denise L
authors.initials: DL
authors.lastname: Rokke
authors.forename: Thomas P
authors.initials: TP
authors.lastname: Moyer
authors.forename: Bobbi S
authors.initials: BS
authors.lastname: Pritt
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005547:Foreign Bodies / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D013057:Spectrum Analysis; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D001743:Urinary Bladder / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery