A double pouch of bladder was formed by divison of the bladder of inbred Fischer 344 rats and implantation of paraffin pellets into each pouch. The upper pouch could be in contact with or isolated from the urinary stream, while the lower pouch was always in contact with the urine. No tumors formed in 99 isolated upper pouches, while 49 formed in 119 communicating upper pouches in contact with t...

We report on the case of a 44-yr-old white man who was referred as an emergency from a local hospital to the medical intensive care unit (ICU) at our institution for progressive multiorgan failure of unknown cause. The CT scan of the abdomen showed a horseshoe kidney with extensive stone formation in both kidneys and the urinary bladder. A massively calcified double pigtail ureteral stent could...

By B. N. KHANNA House Surgeon, State Hospital, Junagad A Hindu male, aged 43 years, was admitted into this hospital on 14th March, 1933, with symptoms of stone in the bladder. The bladder was sounded, and it was found that the stone was too big for litholapaxy. The alternative method of suprapubic lithotomy was suggested to the patient, but he refused operation and was discharged on the 20th Ma...

Modified subtotal cholecystectomy involves removal of the gall bladder after circumferential division of the neck. Either the impacted stone or the surgeons finger was used as a guide to identify the neck. The stump cavity in the neck is obliterated with interrupted sutures to prevent recurrent stone formation. Indications for this procedure are obscure anatomy, due either to the severe inflamm...

This article reports a 74-year-old man came to the emergency department with complaint blood in urine, urinary tract symptom such as nocturia, frequency urgency, and cloudy urine. Physical examination showed suprapubic area was hard on palpation. The abdominal X-ray of patient an opaque stone bladder. An ultrasound scan multiple bladder longest 1.59 cm size. Bilateral kidney cyst prostate enlar...

Background: Calcium tartrate tetrahydrate has been reported as the main mineral in urinary stones in rats that have significant tartrate in their diet, but in humans, there has been only one mention of calcium tartrate stones in the form of bladder stone, and that case was in Africa. Case Presentation: Patient is a 34-year-old Caucasian male who presented with typical symptoms of nephrolithiasi...

The actual activity of ionised calcium (Ca2+) in gall bladder bile determined with an ion-selective electrode was significantly higher in patients with gall stone disease (n = 15) than in patients without gall stones (n = 10) (0.43 mmol/kg v 0.31 mmol/kg; p < 0.05). No change in the Ca2+ activity in any of the gall bladder bile samples was observed during equilibration with CO2. During titratio...

INTRODUCTION in his Libro del exercicio y de sus provechos (Book of exercise and profits), the Spanish Renaissance physician Christopher Mendez (1500-1553) describes extracting a bulk stone from the bladder of a child younger than 5 years in the land of colonial Mexico. This is the first description of a surgical procedure in America. MATERIAL AND METHODS Biographical data were collected on C...

BACKGROUND Secondary urethral stone although rare, commonly arises from the kidneys, bladder or are seen in patients with urethral stricture. These stones are either found in the posterior or anterior urethra and do result in acute urinary retention. We report urethral obstruction from dislodged bladder diverticulum stones. This to our knowledge is the first report from Nigeria and in English l...