Retention of a Foreign Body in the Vagina of an Adult for 13 Years: A Case Report

Cases in which foreign bodies have been inserted into the vagina predominately occur in the pediatric population. This report presents the case of an adult woman with a retained foreign body for 13 years. A duplicated ureter suggestive of a Mullerian anomaly was incidentally identified on intraopera...

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Autores principales: Sharaf, Omar M, Wilkinson, Elizabeth A, Elbadri, Elizabeth, Weber LeBrun, Emily E
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2023
Materias:
Family/General Practice
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10005853/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36909071
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.34776
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description Cases in which foreign bodies have been inserted into the vagina predominately occur in the pediatric population. This report presents the case of an adult woman with a retained foreign body for 13 years. A duplicated ureter suggestive of a Mullerian anomaly was incidentally identified on intraoperative cystoscopy. Mullerian anomalies may be associated with complex patient presentations and are associated with reproductive implications that should be discussed based on patient-specific characteristics.
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spelling pubmed-100058532023-03-11 Retention of a Foreign Body in the Vagina of an Adult for 13 Years: A Case Report Sharaf, Omar M Wilkinson, Elizabeth A Elbadri, Elizabeth Weber LeBrun, Emily E Cureus Family/General Practice Cases in which foreign bodies have been inserted into the vagina predominately occur in the pediatric population. This report presents the case of an adult woman with a retained foreign body for 13 years. A duplicated ureter suggestive of a Mullerian anomaly was incidentally identified on intraoperative cystoscopy. Mullerian anomalies may be associated with complex patient presentations and are associated with reproductive implications that should be discussed based on patient-specific characteristics. Cureus 2023-02-08 /pmc/articles/PMC10005853/ /pubmed/36909071 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.34776 Text en Copyright © 2023, Sharaf et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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title_short Retention of a Foreign Body in the Vagina of an Adult for 13 Years: A Case Report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10005853/
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