Objective. Chronic pelvic pain may present a diagnostic challenge.
Setting. Academic tertiary care center.
Design. Case report.
Case Report. A 46‐year‐old woman presented with pain on micturition and a 15‐month history of right‐sided pelvic pain aggravated by an abdominal massage. Her course and outcome, aided by use of computed tomography (CT) scan, is described, identifying a 6‐cm, mass‐like lesion in the right lower quadrant enclosing an ambiguous linear calcified lesion, which on laparotomy revealed a fish bone embedded in a section of the terminal ileum and the perivesical area.
Conclusion. Chronic pelvic pain refractory to treatment merits consideration of CT to examine for foreign body.