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We describe a patient with a serious urinary tract infection due to Actinomyces bernardiae (formerly classified as CDC [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta] fermentative coryneform group 2). Our patient had long-standing bladder dysfunction and developed hydroureteronephrosis, renal lithiasis, perirenal abscesses, and septicemia. A. bernardiae is distinct from Actinomyces pyogen...

Choledocholithiasis is a problem of remarkable clinical importance, as demonstrated by its incidence, clinical manifestations, and outcomes with sometimes severe complications; nevertheless, great variabilities still exist in the diagnostic and therapeutic distances 1. 10% of the female population and 6% of the male population are affected by cholelithiasis. We know that the lithiasis of the co...

HYPOTHESIS Primary intrahepatic lithiasis occurs frequently in East Asia but is rare in Western countries. Biliary pain and episodes of cholangitis are the most common presenting symptoms, whereas intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma represents a long-term unfavorable complication of the disease. When a single liver lobe or segment is involved, partial hepatectomy may be regarded today as an effecti...

OBJECTIVE To demonstrate that urinary lithiasis have a specific susceptibility to fracture through extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy (ESWL), which is common for all calculi with the same composition and which can be estimated before treatment using CT or plain x-ray. MATERIAL AND METHOD We present an in vitro, prospective, randomized, blind and multi-centre study involving 308 urinary cal...