Evaluation and management of urethral foreign bodies and description of a novel ultrasound-guided catheter-based extraction technique.

ABSTRACT: There are numerous reports in the medical literature documenting urethral foreign bodies with nearly all cases found in men and often associated with underlying psychiatric disorders, autoerotic stimulation, and/or intoxication. Patients most commonly presented with localized penile pain, hematuria, dysuria, and occasionally obstruction. Although endoscopic removal by a urologist is often the first-line treatment, this report describes evaluation and management considerations and presents a novel extraction technique that may allow emergency physicians in consultation with urology to perform removal of some unusual urethral foreign bodies in the emergency department. We report a novel extraction technique using a pediatric foley catheter under ultrasound guidance that has been applied duri

SUBMITTER: Crawford SB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7934071 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature