Human gall bladder mucus glycoprotein was isolated by Sepharose 4B gel filtration followed by caesium chloride density gradient ultracentrifugation from four groups: patients with cholesterol gall stones, patients with pigmented stones, patients with complete obstruction of the cystic duct and patients with no biliary tract abnormalities (controls). Mucus glycoprotein concentrations in choleste...

V.?Lithotomy, a.?Hindu male set. 35. Symptoms of stone first noticed 25 days before admission. Had retention on the day preceding. Stone impacted in prostatic urethra. Extraction per urethram failing, perineal section was performed ; calculus slipped back into bladder on trying to catch it. A lateral division of the prostate was made and a small uric calculus weighing 15 grains easily withdrawn...

Renal colic is a common presentation, with patients complaining of moderate to severe flank pain with or without hematuria. Unenhanced low-dose multidetector CT (MDCT) is recognized as the most accurate examination technique. It shows the precise location and size of renal stones within the kidney, the ureters, and the bladder. If the MDCT examination shows a ureteral stone <5 mm, the stone wil...

BACKGROUND Bladder calculi are one of the commonest health problems in young children especially in rural and underprivileged areas. METHODS All children of bladder stones operated at District Headquarter Hospital Mithi from July 2009 to June 2012 were included in this cross-sectional study. Data was collected regarding age, sex, address (rural or urban), body weight, duration of breast feedi...

Epithelial dysplasia of gall bladder is an important precancerous lesion of gall bladder carcinogenesis. To investigate the frequency of K-ras gene mutation in gall bladder carcinoma and dysplasia, K-ras codon 12 mutations were investigated by the polymerase chain reaction/restriction enzyme based method following direct sequencing. Mutation was detected in 59% (30 of 51) of gall bladder carcin...

Jogulkisto Dutt, a stout Hindoo labourer, residing at Tipperah, aged 35 years, admitted 16th March, 1869, with symptoms ?which had persisted for four years, and which clearly indicated the presence of a stone in the bladder, where, on examination, it was detected in the usual way. He was in good health. The lateral operation of lithotomy was performed on the 16th March, and a stone, apparently ...

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 aVects 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 cholangiopa...

Hong Kong Med J ⎥ Volume 20 Number 4 ⎥ August 2014 ⎥ www.hkmj.org A 77-year-old man with benign prostate hypertrophy (BPH) presented to our hospital in October 2011 with a history of right groin swelling for several months. He was otherwise asymptomatic. Physical examination revealed a reducible right inguinal hernia. Ultrasound (USG) examination of the groins showed a fluid-filled lesion withi...

Retrograde ureteric stone migration is an extremely rare phenomenon with only one previously reported case in the literature. We report on a case of upward spontaneous migration of a ureteric stone in a 39-year-old male military trainer in Saudi Arabia who was diagnosed with upper left ureteric stone based on non-contrast spiral computerized tomography kidney ureter bladder (CT-KUB) scan. The p...

Conditions impairing bladder function in children and adults, such as myelomeningocele, posterior urethral valves, bladder exstrophy or spinal cord injury, often need urinary diversion or augmentation cystoplasty as when untreated they may cause severe bladder dysfunction and kidney failure. Currently, the gold standard therapy of end-stage bladder disease refractory to conservative management ...