title: Foreign body in the bladder: A case report.
abstract: Foreign bodies are occasionally reported in the bladder. In most cases, the foreign body is removed via the transurethral approach. A 57-year-old male patient was referred to our hospital to undergo the retrieval of a foreign body from his bladder. However, the foreign body had become severely calcified and could not be removed transurethrally. Thus, an open bladder wall incision was necessary to remove it. We herein report a case of a foreign body in the bladder that had become calcified and which was successfully removed using a higher bladder incision approach. A careful preoperative examination should be performed to detect the characteristics of the foreign body and avoid the risk of bladder wall perforation.
authors.affiliation: Departments of Urology and Renal Transplantation, Yokohama City University Medical Center, Yokohama, Japan.
authors.forename: Kota
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Shimokihara
authors.affiliation: Departments of Urology and Renal Transplantation, Yokohama City University Medical Center, Yokohama, Japan; Department of Urology, Yokohama City University Graduate School of Medicine, Yokohama, Japan. Electronic address: kawahara@yokohama-cu.ac.jp.
authors.forename: Takashi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kawahara
authors.affiliation: Departments of Urology and Renal Transplantation, Yokohama City University Medical Center, Yokohama, Japan.
authors.forename: Yutaro
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Hayashi
authors.affiliation: Departments of Urology and Renal Transplantation, Yokohama City University Medical Center, Yokohama, Japan.
authors.forename: Sohgo
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Tsutsumi
authors.affiliation: Departments of Urology and Renal Transplantation, Yokohama City University Medical Center, Yokohama, Japan.
authors.forename: Daiji
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Takamoto
authors.affiliation: Departments of Urology and Renal Transplantation, Yokohama City University Medical Center, Yokohama, Japan.
authors.forename: Taku
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Mochizuki
authors.affiliation: Departments of Urology and Renal Transplantation, Yokohama City University Medical Center, Yokohama, Japan.
authors.forename: Yusuke
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Hattori
authors.affiliation: Departments of Urology and Renal Transplantation, Yokohama City University Medical Center, Yokohama, Japan.
authors.forename: Jun-Ichi
authors.initials: JI
authors.lastname: Teranishi
authors.affiliation: Departments of Urology and Renal Transplantation, Yokohama City University Medical Center, Yokohama, Japan.
authors.forename: Yasuhide
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Miyoshi
authors.affiliation: Departments of Urology and Renal Transplantation, Yokohama City University Medical Center, Yokohama, Japan.
authors.forename: Yasushi
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Yumura
authors.affiliation: Department of Urology, Yokohama City University Graduate School of Medicine, Yokohama, Japan.
authors.forename: Masahiro
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Yao
authors.affiliation: Departments of Urology and Renal Transplantation, Yokohama City University Medical Center, Yokohama, Japan.
authors.forename: Hiroji
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Uemura
keywords: Bladder; Foreign body; Higher bladder incision