\'ght pointed slipper caused him to feel faint for two hours. A large amount of blood escaped at the urinary meatus at the time of the injury. The symptoms on admission were :? Tenderness and swelling in the perineum and retention of urine. The Assistant Surgeon on duty failed to pass any kind of catheter, and at 3-30 p.m. the bladder was aspirated supra-pubically and 23 oz. of bloody urine was...

A case of tabetic neuroarthropathy of the lumbar spine causing cauda equina compression with paraplegia and retention of urine is described. The literature is reviewed and the role of surgery in such cases is discussed.

According to Ayurveda various diseases are caused by sepratlon of natural urges (Vega-vidhran), as testified by Susruta who has described 13 types of udavarta rogas. Here an attempt is made to study thy effects of voluntary retention of urine on a series of patients suffering from stress disorders in terms of Neurohumoral, biochemical and physiological changes. The study clearly validates the a...

A 15 year old girl presented to the accident and emergency (A&E) department with a 24 hour history of lower abdominal pain, and was found to have acute urinary retention. She was discovered to have an imperforate hymen with associated haematocolpos and haematometrium. This is rare and is hence a very unusual presentation to the A&E department. Patients presenting with retention of urine should ...

; ? was treated and cured. As a result of this fracture he /'?;?> got a deformity on the left side and had a limp. Since V.'-, then he has had no other complaint until he noticed .a; painful swelling in the. perineal and lower part of scrotal regions which also -led to retention of urine, about four months ago. After a few days, both the swellings burst and there was discharge of pus and urine....

In order to clarify urinary metabolites of p-chloroaniline (p-CA), urine samples of a patient acutely poisoned with p-CA were analyzed by gas chromatography/mass spectrometry. Urinary metabolites were extracted with diethylether at pH 1.0 and pH 10 from urine samples hydrolyzed with acid and base and from intact urine samples. Aliquots of the ethereal extracts were injected into the gas chromat...

B. K. was admitted to this hospital on 30th April, 1924, suffering from the typical symptoms of vesical calculus; he gave the following interesting history. Six months previously he had had an attack of renal colic, which was relieved by some subcutaneous injections, but retention of urine followed; a medical practitioner then passed a rubber catheter and withdrew the urine; he then filled and ...

By BASHIRUDDIN AHMED, Sub-Assistant Surgeon, Sadar Hospital, Comilla. An aged Brahmin, about 75 years of age, was brought to this hospital on the night of the 15th October, 1927, for treatment for retention of urine, due to an enlarged prostate. Retention had been complete for 72 hours, and an attempt made at Brahmanbaria hospital to pass a catheter had been unsuccessful. There was no history o...

I SUPPOSE that all surgeons will admit that an enlarged prostate of itself causes no harm, and often gives rise to no symptoms. Trouble and danger commence with the residual urine, which, if it increase, gives rise to retention, catheterism, and other serious consequences. The symptoms that are generally attributed to the enlarged prostate, such as frequency of micturition and so-called inconti...