Conservative Management for Urethral Foreign Body: A Case Report of an Adolescent Boy With Repeated Events
Placing foreign bodies into the urethra is not a common occurrence in the general population. Patients self-insert foreign bodies for a multitude of reasons such as sexual gratification, secondary gain, and psychiatric illness. From our own experience and what has been reported in the literature, th...
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| author | Adam Bezinque Ahmad Mohamed Jeffrey White Katie Canalichio Dennis Peppas Eran Rosenberg |
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| description | Placing foreign bodies into the urethra is not a common occurrence in the general population. Patients self-insert foreign bodies for a multitude of reasons such as sexual gratification, secondary gain, and psychiatric illness. From our own experience and what has been reported in the literature, there is a wide variability in the type of objects that patients place into the urethra. We report a unique case of a 17-year-old adolescent boy with repeated foreign body insertions into the urethra over a 1-year period. This patient suffers from significant psychiatric illness. Due to the number of events in this past year, we initiated a conservative observational approach that contrasts the traditional invasive protocol to treat with endoscopic removal. This management has proven to be successful in his case and can be replicated in other scenarios after careful consideration of the clinical presentation. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-447ef845ebe547ce94228c97162a3e8b2022-12-21T18:49:37ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Pediatrics2296-23602021-07-01910.3389/fped.2021.691778691778Conservative Management for Urethral Foreign Body: A Case Report of an Adolescent Boy With Repeated EventsAdam Bezinque0Ahmad Mohamed1Jeffrey White2Katie Canalichio3Dennis Peppas4Eran Rosenberg5Department of Urology, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, United StatesDepartment of Pediatric Urology, Norton Healthcare, Louisville, KY, United StatesDepartment of Pediatric Urology, Norton Healthcare, Louisville, KY, United StatesDepartment of Pediatric Urology, Norton Healthcare, Louisville, KY, United StatesDepartment of Pediatric Urology, Norton Healthcare, Louisville, KY, United StatesDepartment of Pediatric Urology, Norton Healthcare, Louisville, KY, United StatesPlacing foreign bodies into the urethra is not a common occurrence in the general population. Patients self-insert foreign bodies for a multitude of reasons such as sexual gratification, secondary gain, and psychiatric illness. From our own experience and what has been reported in the literature, there is a wide variability in the type of objects that patients place into the urethra. We report a unique case of a 17-year-old adolescent boy with repeated foreign body insertions into the urethra over a 1-year period. This patient suffers from significant psychiatric illness. Due to the number of events in this past year, we initiated a conservative observational approach that contrasts the traditional invasive protocol to treat with endoscopic removal. This management has proven to be successful in his case and can be replicated in other scenarios after careful consideration of the clinical presentation.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fped.2021.691778/fullurethral foreign bodyvoidobservationpsychiatric illnessurethra |
| spellingShingle | Adam Bezinque Ahmad Mohamed Jeffrey White Katie Canalichio Dennis Peppas Eran Rosenberg Conservative Management for Urethral Foreign Body: A Case Report of an Adolescent Boy With Repeated Events Frontiers in Pediatrics urethral foreign body void observation psychiatric illness urethra |
| title | Conservative Management for Urethral Foreign Body: A Case Report of an Adolescent Boy With Repeated Events |
| title_full | Conservative Management for Urethral Foreign Body: A Case Report of an Adolescent Boy With Repeated Events |
| title_fullStr | Conservative Management for Urethral Foreign Body: A Case Report of an Adolescent Boy With Repeated Events |
| title_full_unstemmed | Conservative Management for Urethral Foreign Body: A Case Report of an Adolescent Boy With Repeated Events |
| title_short | Conservative Management for Urethral Foreign Body: A Case Report of an Adolescent Boy With Repeated Events |
| title_sort | conservative management for urethral foreign body a case report of an adolescent boy with repeated events |
| topic | urethral foreign body void observation psychiatric illness urethra |
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