Bladder stones affecting children, especially in low-resource countries. Dietary, environmental, genetic inheritance, and socio-economic factors the composition of bladder stones. Even though etiology is unknown, recent research has identified many risk that may assist this pathological condition. cystolithotripsy now become standard care, other approaches are indicated specific conditions. Sur...

Background: Bladder outlet obstruction (BOO) is a clinical condition that characterized by impediment to the flow of urine. It affects all age groups with varying etiologies. The pattern this in our setting unknown. This study aimed at determines clinico-epidemiological BOO southwestern Nigeria. Method: We retrospectively reviewed case files patients were managed for over period 10years center....

Octreotide therapy in acromegaly is associated with an increased prevalence of gall stones, which may be the result of an inhibition of gall bladder motility. Gall stone prevalence in untreated acromegalic patients relative to the general population is unknown, however, and the presence of gall stones and gall bladder motility in these patients and in acromegalic patients receiving octreotide w...

PURPOSE To retrospectively assess the clinical utility in ureteroscopy (URS) planning of cumulative stone diameter (CSD), which does not account for stone width or depth, as a predictor of URS outcome and compare it with stone volume. MATERIALS AND METHODS Patients with renal stones treated at a single institute by flexible URS were retrospectively evaluated. To assess the clinical utility of...

Background: An intrauterine device is commonly used for contraception globally. Although intrauterine device placement is an effective and safe method of contraception, migration into the bladder with stone formation is a rare and serious complication. The management approaches for an intrauterine device embedded in the bladder include endoscopic procedures and open surgical removal. In this st...

During the period November 1988 to April 1989, eleven patients with bladder calculi, seen at our Centre, were offered ESWL therapy. However, only eight patients underwent ESWL. One patient passed his stone spontaneously, one requested endoscopic lithotrity as the initial mode of therapy and one underwent transurethral resection of the prostate and simultaneous endoscopic lithotrity of his bladd...

A NOTABLE cHAPTER in the long history of human bladder stone has been contributed from Norwich and its county of Norfolk and this came about for several reasons. The main reason was that Norfolk enjoyed the unenviable reputation during the latter part of the eighteenth and throughout the nineteenth centuries of having the highest incidence of bladder stone among its inhabitants of any county in...