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Abstract: In daily practice, we encounter many patients with calculi in various parts of the urinary tract. However, it is rarely a peculiar foreign body such as clips, pins, electric wires, coins etc., which masquerades as a calculus (1). Such patients often have associated psychiatric illnesses or sexual illnesses with autoeroticism which compels them to insert such foreign objects into the urinary tract (2). These can be extracted via endoscopic approach usually, but seldom open approach may be required. Here we present three interesting case of foreign bodies within the urinary tract and how we approached each case. 

Keywords: Foreign body, urinary tract, cystostomy