Giant vesical calculus (more than 100 g) is a very rare clinical entity [1]. During pregnancy, it may be associated with infections, abortions, premature delivery, urinary fistula, and rarely dystocia of labor [2]. When bladder stone (BS) remains asymptomatic and thereby gains large size of several centimetres, it may be diagnosed first time during labor when timely interventions must be taken ...

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...

Introduction An 80-year-old man with a previous history of recurrent urinary tract infections presented with intermittent, painful and whole stream gross haematuria for 2 months. Physical examination was unrevealing. The result of urine cytology was negative for malignancy. Intravenous pyelography (IVP) revealed left hydronephrosis with obstruction at left ureterovesical junction, radiolucent f...

Using a modified electromagnetic lithotripter (Siemens), extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy (ESWL) was performed in 260 patients with gall bladder stones. Exclusion criteria for treatment were a non-functioning gall bladder, subcostal gall bladder location, and multiple stones occupying more than three quarters of the gall bladder volume. Stone pulverisation was the end point of ESWL. The nu...

One-hundred and sixteen children with ESRD were registered in Shiraz Pediatric Hemodialysis Center in Nemazee Hospital, a referral center in the south of Iran, from 1990 to 1999. Very small children are not dialysed in this center due to technical problems. The age range of children in this center was 2-16 years, mean age was 10.4±3.6 years and male to female ratio was 1.4. Major causes of ...

BACKGROUND Urinary tract stones are increasing in our societies. Similar to the finding in developed countries, majority of our patients have upper urinary tract stones. Urethral stone is an uncommon cause of acute urinary retention. It presents with an emergency management scenario which is compounded by lack of endoscopic facilities in our hospitals. We present the management of urethral ston...

A Hindu male child, three years old, was admitted to hospital with difficulty in passing urine, and distension of the bladder. The symptoms were of two months' duration. The passage of a sound failed to detect the vesical stone. X-ray examination revealed no stone. Symptomatic treatment gave no relief. Suprapubic cystotomy was performed, and a soft growth about one inch long was found arising f...

Gopal, male, aged 30 years, came in with retention ot urine which he had had for 30 hours. His urine was drawn off with a rubber catheter which went in easily, and he was admitted into the ward of the Prince of Wales Hospital. Next morning when notes of the case were recorded he mentioned that there was some obstruction in his rectum and that it was like a ball moving up and down. When further ...

Urjoon, aged 6 years, native of Dhenkanal, caste Keut, was admitted into the Dhenkanal dispensary on 21st October 1876. Was previously admitted for stone in bladder on 4th July last, with usual symptoms of stoppage of urine during micturition, dribbling, constant desire to void urine, and pain in doing so, great irritability of bladder and penis, which the child always rubs and pinches with his...

out the guide of a staff can effect entrance into the bladder for the purpose of extracting stones, although it is a hazardous proceeding. It also proves that in cases of almost impenetrable strictures of the urethra complicated with a stone in the bladder the median section may be successfully performed. Case.?Judu, a Hindoo boy, aged about six years, was admitted into the hospital on the 13th...