The story of foreign bodies in the urinary bladder is an old one, varied and fascinating. Brewer and Marcus 1 state that the medical literature from 1880 to 1946 contains reports of no less than 566 foreign bodies in the urinary bladder. The following objects are among those that have been found2: lead pencils
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