Bladder calculus following vesical foreign bodies is uncommon. The usual presentation is presence of lower urinary symptoms. Most of these foreign bodies are either left inadvertently after open bladder operations or migrate from adjacent structures. This is a case report of an unusual self inserted foreign body in a female presenting with bladder calculus and diverticulum. Self inserted foreig...

Reports of cases of calculus of the bladder obstructing labour are difficult to find in the literature, probably because this is an extremely rare phenomenon. Smellie has recorded a case of a large calculus which was forced out of the bladder during labour, resulting in a permanent fistula. In his monograph on the subject in I875 Hugenberger referred to 23 cases. In many of them great injury oc...

The bacterial causation of urinary calculi is well recognised in the so-called secondary stones such as the triple phosphates-In these cases the bacteria split up the urea, turning the urifle