Objective Todetermine the cause, clinical presentation and the most suitable method of treatment for retrieving foreign bodies from urinary bladder. Patients and Methods This descriptive study was conducted at Department of Nephro-Urology Chandka Medical College Hospital (CMCH), Larkana. Patients were divided into two groups on the basis of having known or unknown foreign bodies in urinary blad...

The authors reviewed their experience with therapeutic bronchoscopy for removal of tracheobronchial foreign bodies in the adult. Bronchoscopy records and collection of foreign bodies in the endoscopic department were retrospectively examined. Among 37,466 bronchoscopies performed between 1974-1998, 62 (0.2%) were performed for the removal of tracheobronchial foreign bodies. Medical history was ...

The radiologic and clinical findings of foreign bodies in the chest of children are well recognized. Foreign bodies in adults are infrequent, however, and the radiologic findings of these unusual circumstances have rarely been described. We classified various thoracic foreign bodies into three types according to their cause: Type I, Aspiration, Type II, Trauma or Accident; Type III, Iatrogenic....

There is an extensive literature dealing with the immediate problems, both diagnostic and therapeutic, of penetrating injuries of the thorax, taut only a rather sparse amount of information on the late behaviour and appearance of intrathoracic metallic foreign bodies.'-'' In view of the large number of persons who have survived in the recent world conflict with such bodies still retained, it ma...

OBJECTIVE To describe 8 cases of penile foreign bodies. METHODS/RESULTS We provide an essentially visual overview of various objects or foreign bodies affecting the penis. CONCLUSIONS The presence of penile foreign bodies is rarely due to an accident. These objects are placed for a wide variety of reasons, but primarily for erotic or self-arousal purposes. The consequences of penile foreign...

A 28-year-old patient went to the emergency room when he found it impossible to remove a metal ring he had placed on his penis 16 hours earlier. (This case was reported as a clinical note 3 years ago by our group1). The steel ring was 0.4-cm thick, had an inner diameter of 2 cm, and was located in the middle third of the penis (Figure 1-A) He did not wish to specify the purpose of placing the o...

Foreign body aspiration (FBA) is a potentially life-threatening event, more common in children than in adults. In the year 2001 in Italy, inhaled FB accounted for 30 deaths from respiratory obstruction in children [1]. The signs and symptoms of FBA vary according to the age of the subject, the type of object aspirated, the location of the object, and the elapsed time since the event. The remova...

Impaction of foreign bodies in the oesophagus was analysed in 54 patients, 45 of whom were children. Of the 45 children 28 were aged 2-4 years. Coins were the most common foreign body in children (27 cases) while in adults a bolus of meat was most common (nine cases). In 41 children there was no predisposing factor, but an underlying mechanism was detected in 88% of the adults. The mechanisms w...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES In this retrospective study, nature, clinical presentations, diagnostic modalities, and endoscopic treatment of urinary system foreign bodies were evaluated. METHODS A total of 8 cases were treated with endoscopic surgery between February 15, 2007 and June 12, 2012. Clinical findings, radiologic diagnosis, and management were reviewed. RESULTS We observed that urin...