“Only someone aware of the great variety of case reports concerning foreign bodies in the bladder knows just how many sorts of living and dead matter have been found in the bladder” (Boeminghaus) [1].
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A case of foreign body induced bladder wall abscess erroneously diagnosed as cancer and identified only after surgical removal of the bladder is described. Replacement of the bladder was done by ileo-cystoplasty.
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Boeminghaus, H.: Urologie. Operative Therapie, Klinik und Indikation, Bd. I. 4. Aufl. Werk-Verlag Banaschewski, München-Gräfeling 1971, p. 599.
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Németh, A., Kiss, A. Foreign body induced chronic abscess imitating cancer of the bladder wall. International Urology and Nephrology 13, 65–68 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02082073
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02082073