Vaginal foreign body extraction by obstetric soft vacuum cup: An alternative to forceps

An unusual case of long standing vaginal foreign body removed with obstetric forceps

“…There are very few case reports in the literature where obstetric forceps and a soft vaccum cup were used to extract the foreign body successfully where other methods have failed. 3,6 In our case we had to resort to using the obstetric forceps which was successful. The wood apple would have caused fibrosis which had prevented the further development of prolapse of uterus after the removal of the object.…”