Urethral Foreign Body: Evaluation of an Interesting Case Guided by the Literature

Abstract

Urethral foreign body is a rare condition, and while there are many possible reasons, it is generally caused by self-insertion of a foreign object into one's own urethra and requires emergency intervention. Sexual or erotic stimulation, trauma, medical interventions, and psychiatric problems may play a role in etiology. Radiological findings are important in order to obtain information about the foreign body and make accurate diagnosis, and treatment of this condition may require various instruments due to adjacent organ injury. Presently described is effort to determine possible causes of bladder gas, considered evidence of severe urological problem, and its association with urethral foreign body with a lumen. Treatment approaches to urethral foreign body as reported in the literature are also discussed.

A Cotton Swab in Male Urethra: A Case Report of an Unusual Urethral Foreign Body

“…Computed tomography may be used to identify a foreign body with gap inside because it can be seen in air density at the CT examination like in our case. It was possible to view the foreign body, a pen, in the anterior urethra because of the air gap inside in a similar case reported by Sahin et al (8).…”