Blue jeans thread nested in mucosa of urinary bladder as a remnant of recent perineal impalement injury
Article published in Urologia Polska 2008/61/3.

authors

Wojciech Szewczyk, Andrzej Prajsner

Kliniczny Oddział Urologii Śląskiego Uniwersytetu Medycznego w Katowicach

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urinary bladder bladder injury foreign body

summary

Isolated impalement injury to the urinary bladder is a very rare occurrence. We report a case of 23 old men with penetrating injury of

the bladder. Penetrating object (steel bar) deposit into the bladder two threads from the jeans pants. One of them was voided with

the urine, and the second one was removed endoscopicaly. Patient was then catheterised for 3 days. During following two months

there was no dysuria or any pathology in the urine. Control cystoscopy performed two months after treatment showed no pathology

in bladder wall.

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