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Spring onion as a foreign body in the urethra

We report a case in which a spring onion was inserted into a patient's urethra and bladder by his wife. Because vegetables are radiolucent, we used abdominal computed tomography to make the diagnosis. A spring onion was pulled out completely, and no residual plant material remained inside the b...

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Autores principales: Lai, Tzu-Chun, Chen, Chin-Li
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7058903/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32154113
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eucr.2020.101144
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description We report a case in which a spring onion was inserted into a patient's urethra and bladder by his wife. Because vegetables are radiolucent, we used abdominal computed tomography to make the diagnosis. A spring onion was pulled out completely, and no residual plant material remained inside the bladder.
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spelling pubmed-70589032020-03-09 Spring onion as a foreign body in the urethra Lai, Tzu-Chun Chen, Chin-Li Urol Case Rep Functional Medicine We report a case in which a spring onion was inserted into a patient's urethra and bladder by his wife. Because vegetables are radiolucent, we used abdominal computed tomography to make the diagnosis. A spring onion was pulled out completely, and no residual plant material remained inside the bladder. Elsevier 2020-02-24 /pmc/articles/PMC7058903/ /pubmed/32154113 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eucr.2020.101144 Text en © 2020 Published by Elsevier Inc. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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title_short Spring onion as a foreign body in the urethra
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7058903/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32154113
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