ArticleCureus2024
No Right Way: Removal of a Pencil Foreign Body From a Male Urethra.
Article in Cureus, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.
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1 citing paper in PubMed.
- A brush with danger: operative management of a through and through urethral and rectal injury following paintbrush insertion into the urethra.Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England · 2026Article
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Abstract
Foreign body insertion into the urethra is uncommonly encountered in urology practice. Such insertion can result in a myriad of problems including bleeding, infectious sequelae, urinary retention, urethral injury or rupture, and resultant urethral stricture formation. This article describes a case in which an elderly male inserted a pencil into his urethra, which subsequently became lodged and required removal under regional anesthesia in the operating theater. The foreign body resulted in urethral damage in the form of a false passage within the bulbomembranous urethra. The pencil was removed with forceps, followed by undertaking a check rigid ureteroscopy and cystoscopy before placement of a urethral catheter via a guidewire. Postoperatively, the patient developed urinary sepsis requiring an extended course of intravenous antibiotics. The catheter was left in situ for six weeks before removal to allow satisfactory urethral healing.
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