title: Acute pelvic pain: a ball pen may be a cause?
abstract: Chronic Urinary tract infection (UTI) is a common problem in women and can be seen without any significant anatomical and functional pathology. Foreign bodies within the urinary bladder are not rare and should be considered as a cause of chronic and recurrent UTI. Intravesical foreign bodies can be self inflicted, iatrogenic or migration from adjacent organs. History in these cases is often misleading and presentation of foreign body mostly becomes apparent as suprapubic pain, dysuria with or without hematuria. We present a case of self-inflicted foreign body within the bladder of a young female who presented with recurrent urinary tract infections for six months that did not respond to medical treatment.
authors: Associate Professor, Department of Radiodiagnosis, Peoples College of Medical Science and Research Centre Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India .
authors: Garjesh Singh
authors: GS
authors: Rai
authors: Post Graduate Student, Department of Radiodiagnosis, Peoples College of Medical Science and Research Centre Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India .
authors: Rakesh
authors: R
authors: Roshan
authors: Professor, Department of Radiodiagnosis, Peoples College of Medical Science and Research Centre Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India .
authors: Radha
authors: R
authors: Sarawagi
authors: Assistant Professor, Department of Radiodiagnosis, Peoples College of Medical Science and Research Centre Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India .
authors: Mahendra Mohan
authors: MM
authors: Vyas
authors: Post Graduate Student, Department of Radiodiagnosis, Peoples College of Medical Science and Research Centre Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India .
authors: Deepak
authors: D
authors: Goel
keywords: Computed tomography; Foreign body; UTI; Ultrasonography; Urinary bladder
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