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Acute Pelvic Pain: A Ball Pen May Be a Cause?
RD04-RD05
Correspondence
Dr. Radha Sarawagi,
Professor, Department of Radiodiagnosis,
Peoples College of Medical Science and Research Centre, Bhanpur Road, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India.
Phone: +919644606316, E-mail: radhasanjeevgupta@gmail.com
Chronic Urinary tract infection (UTI) is a common problem in women and can be seen without any significant anatomical and functional pathology. Foreign bodies within the urinary bladder are not rare and should be considered as a cause of chronic and recurrent UTI. Intravesical foreign bodies can be self inflicted, iatrogenic or migration from adjacent organs. History in these cases is often misleading and presentation of foreign body mostly becomes apparent as suprapubic pain, dysuria with or without hematuria. We present a case of self- inflicted foreign body within the bladder of a young female who presented with recurrent urinary tract infections for six months that did not respond to medical treatment