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A very unusual intravesical foreign body in a male

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We present a case of a battery as foreign bodyin the bladder in a 36-year-old man. Many kindsof foreign bodies in the bladder have beenreported but to our knowledge this is the firstcase of a battery. The diagnosis and thetreatment of the case is discussed.

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  1. Department of Urology, Ankara University, School of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey

    Çağatay Göğüş, Özcan Kılıç, Ahmet Haliloğlu & Orhan Göğüş

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Göğüş, Ç., Kılıç, Ö., Haliloğlu, A. et al. A very unusual intravesical foreign body in a male. Int Urol Nephrol 34, 203–204 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1023237523186

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