title: Intravesical foreign bodies: a case report and a review of the literature.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  We report a case of intravesical polyvinyl-coated electric wire in the urinary bladder.
  
  
  METHODS
  A 34-year-old man presented in our clinic with irritative lower urinary tract symptoms. Three weeks earlier he had seen and felt a wire in his urethra of which he was unaware of the origin. Radiologic evaluation revealed an electric wire completely coiled up in the urinary bladder. It was removed through a suprapubic cystotomy.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Patients are usually too ashamed to admit the cause of an intravesical foreign body, which is often sexual or erotic in origin. Radiologic evaluation usually reveals the nature and size of the foreign body in the bladder of patients evaluated for recurrent urinary tract infection. Open surgery or an endoscopic approach may be used for their extraction.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma, Nigeria.
authors.forename: Eshiobo
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Irekpita
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Imomoh
authors.forename: Emeka
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Kesieme
authors.forename: Vincent
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Onuora
keywords: complications; electric wire; intravesical; treatment