This article reports the case of an adolescent who repeatedly inserted high-strength magnetic beads into his urethra for erotic reasons. The beads migrated into his bladder requiring a cystostomy to remove them. The available literature is reviewed.

CASE REPORT A 24-year-old man referring from a remote village presented with the history of passing urine through multiple openings in the anterior abdominal wall. At presentation, his kidney function and the urinary tract were normal. He had a history of urethral injury due to pelvic trauma following accidental fall of heavy metal object while playing at the age of 4 years. As initial manageme...

INTRODUCTION Pelvic fractures represent approximately 3% of all skeletal injuries. About 15% of patients with pelvic fractures have associated bladder or urethral injuries. The most common causes of pelvic fracture are motor vehicle accidents, motorcycle crashes, motor vehicles striking pedestrians, and falls. MATERIAL AND METHODS Retrospective study included the patients treated in the Emerg...

Neuropathic urinary bladder is often colonised by multidrug-resistant bacteria. We report a 64-year-old male spinal cord injury patient with paraplegia, who received gentamicin on empirical basis before undergoing suprapubic cystostomy, as antibiotic sensitivity report of urine was not available. This patient developed fulminate septicaemia. Although appropriate antibiotic therapy (meropenem) w...

Background/Aim: Difficult urethral catheterization (DUC) is a frequent urological emergency in daily practice. Anticoagulant and antiaggregant drugs, included the treatment protocols for COVID-19, tend to increase risk of possible complications alternative interventions, such as cystoscopy suprapubic percutaneous cystostomy. Therefore, less invasive method needed patients with DUC. This study a...

The present study was carried out to evaluate an innovative veterinary catheter for cystostomy that we have developed small pets, while the technique is management of clinical cases obstructive urolithiais, this operation including new devoted emergency and usual in order minimize most frequent complications engender by other catheters procedures are widely used practice with urinary obstructio...

A 47-year-old male was referred to Emergency Department of our hospital for acute urinary retention. Physical examination showed electrical cable with proximal part introduced into the urethra. Plain abdominal radiograph demonstrated a metallic object in the pelvis and the patient underwent an operation. We used suprapubic cystostomy approach, and the wire was removed from the bladder and urethra.