Experience in managing children with foreign bodies in the lower urinary tract

Zolotukhin D.S., Pavlova O.S., Filatov I.A.

1) GAUZ «Chelyabinsk Regional Children's Clinical Hospital», Chelyabinsk, Russia; 2) FGBOU VO South Ural State Medical University of the Ministry of Health of Russia», Chelyabinsk, Russia

The presence of foreign bodies in the lower urinary tract has always been an interesting topic. From time to time, every urologist encounters such patients in their practice. A large number of such observations are described in the literature. A clinical case of foreign bodies in the lower urinary tract in 9 children admitted from January 2020 to December 2023 to the Department of pediatric urology of the Chelyabinsk Regional Children's Clinical Hospital are presented in the article. The patients’ charts were analyzed retrospectively. The methods of introducing foreign bodies into the lower urinary tract, diagnostic pathway, as well as the treatment tactics were studied.

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About the Authors

Corresponding author: D.S. Zolotukhin – assistant at the Department of General and Pediatric Surgery of FGBOU VO South Ural State Medical University of the Ministry of Health of Russia, pediatric urologist and andrologist, pediatric surgeon of GAUZ «Chelyabinsk Regional Children's Clinical Hospital», Chelyabinsk, Russia; e-mail: as12er@mail.ru

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