Abstract:Foreign bodies of the bladder are rares. The presence of a foreign body in the bladder is often anecdotic. We report a case of acute generalized peritonitis due to migration of a ballpoint pen from bladder to great peritoneal cavity in a 17-year-old man. He was admitted for a peritoneal syndrome after introducing a ballpoint pen into the urethra to masturbation purposes. He has no psychiatric history. Exploration had found an agglutination of small bowel loops around the ballpoint pen. The ballpoint pen was ab… Show more
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