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A foreign body self-inserted via the urethra into the bladder: Pocket battery

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A 37-year-old male patient who had intensediscomfort due to dysuria, pollacuria, wasexamined and a foreign body was determined inthe bladder. This foreign body was a type of pocket battery self inserted compulsively intothe bladder by the patient and this is thefirst published report to our knowledge.

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  1. Department of 2.Urology Clinic, Ankara Education and Research Hospital, Turkey

    Ali Ayyıldız, Mesut Gürdal, Barış Nuhoğlu, Erim Ersoy, Emre Huri & Cankon Germiyanoğlu

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Ayyıldız, A., Gürdal, M., Nuhoğlu, B. et al. A foreign body self-inserted via the urethra into the bladder: Pocket battery. Int Urol Nephrol 35, 251–252 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1023/B:UROL.0000020290.56695.19

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