Lost and Now Found: Retained Straight Catheter for 20 Years

✍ Scribed by Emma Ester Bendaña; Deep Trivedi; Jonah Marshall; Edward Messing

• Book ID: 116952394
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 365 KB
• Volume: 77
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0090-4295
• DOI: 10.1016/j.urology.2010.01.063

✦ Synopsis

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 urethrostomy and incision at the meatus and fossa navicularis. A Foley catheter was inserted easily into the urethra for drainage. At last follow-up, 7 weeks after surgery, the patient was voiding successfully without any difficulties.