Lost and Now Found: Retained Straight Ca
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Emma Ester Bendaña; Deep Trivedi; Jonah Marshall; Edward Messing
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Article
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2011
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Elsevier Science
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English
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A literature review of PubMed reveals that 1 case report is found of a retained Foley catheter for 3 years. We report a case of a straight catheter lost in the urethra and forgotten for 20 years and its safe surgical removal. The calcified straight catheter was removed through a perineal urethrostom