The urinary bladder stones are formed due to urinary retention, obstruction to the flow of urine commonly caused by enlargement of the prostate in males, urinary tract infections, and foreign body. The urinary bladder stones are usually found in males, and its presentation in females is a rare entity. Recurrence of urinary tract stones is commonly due to either repeated urinary tract infections...

Leiomyoma of the urinary bladder is a rare benign mesenchymal tumour. We describe here a case of leiomyoma of the urinary bladder in a 65-year-old gentleman who presented with haematuria, passage of clots and combined obstructive and irritative urinary symptoms. The investigations revealed a vesical calculus and a mass on the left lateral wall of the urinary bladder. Cystolitholapaxy and transu...

Kyung Seop Lee, Jung Dam Kim, Ki Ho Kim, Young Jin Seo, Jong Im Lee, Young Sil Lee, Sung Woo Kim From the Departments of Urology, Pathology, Internal Medicine, Radiology, College of Medicine, Dongguk University, Gyeongju, Korea Paragangliomas of the urinary bladder are very rare tumors of the paraganglion system that arise from chromaffin cells in or near the sympathetic ganglia. Only approxima...

OBJECTIVE The objective was to determine the incidence of bladder stones in patients with spinal cord injury (SCI) and to assess if catheter encrustation or positive urinary culture of Proteus mirabilis is predictive of bladder stones. BACKGROUND Bladder stones are common urological complication in those with SCI managed with indwelling urinary catheter. Detection and removal of bladder stone...

We report a case of a benign fibroepithelial polyp of the lowermost ureter, which prolapsed into the bladder and was associated with a huge, impacted ureteral stone. The polyp was considered to have resulted from chronic irritation of the ureteral mucosa caused by the stone. Review of the literature showed that six out of 74 reported cases had concomitant stones but the polyp was apparently cau...

http://twitter.com/hsru_aberdeen Ureteric colic is the pain felt when a stone passes down the ureter from the kidney to the bladder and is a frequent reason for people to seek emergency health care. Treatment with the muscle-relaxant drugs tamsulosin and nifedipine as medical expulsive therapy (MET) improves the likelihood of spontaneous stone passage and lessens the need for interventional pro...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Even if the motor activity of the gall bladder and sphincter of Oddi (SO) are integrated, it is not known if the presence of stones in the gall bladder affects SO function. The aim of the study was to compare SO motor activity in patients with and without gall stones. PATIENTS AND METHODS In a series of 155 patients consecutively submitted to endoscopic retrograde cholangi...

stone being found to be of a large size and uncrushable, it was decided to remove it by suprapubic operation. On opening into the bladder the stone was found to be partly encysted in the urethra, and a very considerable portion of it was covered by the prostate. On removal it was found to weigh one ounce six drams and tweny-five grains. The boy made an uneventful recovery and was discharged cur...

OBJECTIVE Bladder stones in elderly men are commonly associated with bladder outlet obstruction, and many different treatment modalities have been presented for both these conditions. To evaluate the effectiveness and safety of a novel method concerning spontaneous usage of both monopoplar transurethral resection of the prostate and Holmium Laser cystolithotripsy, we compared the transurethral ...