[Foreign bodies of the bladder [report of 4 cases]]

ABSTRACT

Foreign bodies of the bladder have been amply reported in the literature either describing their origin or the circumstances of insertion. Their presence may often be a consequence of questionable actions performed by mentally unstable persons, but it might also be due to an accidental insertion during transvesical medical procedures or to migration of the foreign body from the perivesical area during interventions on surrounding areas. The authors herein report four different kinds of vesical foreign bodies a textiloma, a calculus formed on a non-absorbable suture filament attached to the bladder wall, migration of osteosynthetic material and migration of an intrauterine device