Foreign Body Stone in the Urinary Bladder: A Case Report

Bladder calculi rarely form spontaneously and are usually a manifestation of an underlying pathologic condition of the lower urinary tract, including voiding dysfunction, urinary infection, obstruction, or foreign body retention. However, a ruptured Foley balloon-induced bladder stone is an unusual complication of an indwelling Foley catheter. We report a case of spinal cord injury with paraplegia and bladder stone induced by a fragment of a ruptured Foley balloon. The bladder stone and the Foley balloon fragment were successfully removed by cystoscopy. The stone was composed of calcium oxalate and calcium phosphate. We report this unusual case to raise awareness that it is important to check the integrity of the Foley catheter after removal of the tube.