İbrahim Üntan, Department of Urology, Ahi Evran University, Training and Research Hospital, Kirsehir, Turkey
Volkan Sabur, Department of Urology, Erciyes Kartal Hospital, Kayseri. Turkey
Foreign bodies in the bladder can occur by self-insertion, and patients often hide the symptoms owing to embarrassment. The foreign bodies act as a nidus for calculus formation when not detected for a long time. Foreign bodies can declare symptoms such as frequency, dysuria, nocturia, hematuria, urethrorrhagia, obstruction, or retention. This case spotlights self-inserted intravesical neodymium magnetic spheres clumped and calcified due to delayed presentation which were removed by open cystotomy after a cystoscopic failure.
Keywords: Exploratory behavior. Foreign bodies. Magnets. Neodymium. Urinary bladder.