he urethra that normally serves as an exit passage for urine also served on rare occasions as an entrance passage for a wide variety of foreign bodies. The most commonly administered objects are different types of pins and pencils.1 More unusual objects included speaker wire, rocks, eye-wear rims, AAA battery, open safety pins, plastic caps, straws, a marble, a cotton-tipped swab and a metal sc...

INTRODUCTION Spinal cord injury patients are at risk for developing unusual complications such as autonomic dysreflexia while changing suprapubic cystostomy. We report a male patient with spina bifida in whom the Foley catheter was placed in the urethra during change of suprapubic cystostomy with serious consequences. CASE PRESENTATION A male patient, born in 1972 with spina bifida and parapl...

Anatomically the male urethra is a potential cavity, the walls of which are normally kept in apposition except during micturition or emission of semen. During coitus, the penis, under the influence of erotic impulses, gets erected, swollen and hard which state makes the lumen of the urethra more firmly constricted?the walls of the urinary passage become temporarily more apposed. During this phy...