Intrauterine contraceptive device (IUCD) is the commonest form of contraception used in view of less systemic side effects. However, there are a multitude of local complications caused by it. Of all the local complications described, migration of the device into adjacent organs is the most morbid of all complications. A patient presenting with history of loss or disappearance of the intrauterin...

A 58-year-old paraplegic male, with long-term indwelling urethral catheter, developed catheter block. The catheter was changed, but blood-stained urine was drained intermittently. A long segment of the catheter was seen lying outside his penis, which indicated that the balloon of Foley catheter had been inflated in urethra. The misplaced catheter was removed and a new catheter was inserted corr...

Urological complications in Crohn's disease are relatively common conditions. However, a few cases with sigmoido-vesical fistula as a complication of the disease have been reported. We experienced a case of a 16-year-old boy with pneumaturia due to sigmoido-vesical fistula as a complication of Crohn's disease.

Las infecciones asociadas al uso de catéter vesical constituyen una las primeras causas infección del tracto urinario; la prevención mismas, mediante identificación los factores riesgo constituye uno elementos fundamentales vigilancia epidemiológica. El objetivo esta investigación fue identificar urinario en pacientes sometidos a cateterismo vesical. Para esto se realizó básica, descriptiva y e...

It is extremely rare that the urinary bladder stones cause vesicorectal fistulas. Urinary tract infection and poor fluid intake are the main etiologies that precipitate vesical stone formation, and subsequent rectovesical fistula. We present a complicated case of neglected vesical stone, which recurred 3 times. The patient presented with passage of urine per rectum leading to fecal incontinence...

A method for the assay of vesical ganglion cells is described and the number and distribution of the neurones in three normal bladders was studied. Vesical ganglion counts were done in cases of the megaureter-megacystis syndrome, megaureter, bladder neck obstruction, megacystis associated with absent abdominal muscles, Hirschsprung's disease, and lumbar myelomeningocoele. A normal complement of...