Squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) of the bladder is a rare and devastating malignancy, usually associated with Schistosoma haematobium, particularly in bilharzia-endemic regions sub-Saharan Africa. Little written about condition pregnancy.
 A 21-year-old Gravida 2 Para 1 at 28 weeks gestation presented worsening symptoms dysuria, increased frequency micturition, backache, painful suprapubic ma...

Urinary diversion after extirpative surgery of the bladder is done by various methods. Conduit urinary diversion is the most commonly practiced method of urinary diversion. It is relatively easy to perform and has a lower complication rate than other forms of diversion, e.g., orthotopic neobladder and continent cutaneous urinary diversion. Urolithiasis is a known and common complication of urin...

Method A 76-year-old woman with the diagnostic suspicion of urinary lithiasis, was subjected to a CT scan with an unknown ICM. Forty-eight hours after the CT scan was carried out, she developed an erythema in both axillae, inframammary folds, cubital and popliteal fossae, such as gluteal and inguinal area, without systemic symptoms. She was treated with methylprednisolone and she began to impro...

The great difficulty of distinguishing nephro-lithiasis from many other pathological conditions of the genito-urinary tract ?especially early tubercular disease of the kidney?is well known; but, except in the case reported below, the Rontgen rays have not yet proved of much practical value in the diagnosis of renal calculus.1 It can be, however, only a matter of time; and there is little doubt ...

INTRODUCTION Empirical information provided by health care professionals acting in the first line of care report a constant increase in the number of civil construction workers that present painful acute conditions, in most cases associated with the existence of urinary tract calculi. AIMS Evaluating the prevalence of urinary lithiasis in civil construction workers, as a means to identify ind...

Studer's neobladder lithiasis is a rare but important long term complication of this orthotopic bladder substitute technique. We report a case of a 45 year-old male patient, submitted to a radical cystoprostatectomy with a Studer's orthotopic neobladder 4 years before, presenting bad compliance to recommended urinary habits, increased production of mucus and high post voiding residue. CT scan a...