Intrauterine contraceptive device (IUCD) is currently one of the most popular reversible contraception method used world wide. Since its introduction, many complications have been reported with IUCD which include dysmenorrhoea, menorrhagia, pelvic infection, pregnancy, uterine perforation and migration into adjacent organs [1]. Migration of the IUCD into the bladder has been rarely reported in ...

We present a male tetraplegic patient, who developed stones in neuropathic bladder six times within a span of three years. Unusual features of this case are: (1) This patient started developing stones in urinary bladder thirteen years after sustaining spinal cord injury. (2) He was performing intermittent catheterisation and did not have an indwelling catheter. (3) The presenting symptom of ves...

A young lad by name Naranappa, aged 16 years, was admitted to this hospital on the 3rd December, 1924, for a persistent fistulous opening in the hypogastric region, through \\ hich urine \\ as always dribbling and soilin?" his clothes. On the 13th March/1921, he had been previously admitted to the same hospital for stone in the bladder, and a big stone weighing 6 drachms 13 grains was removed b...

Rowlands and Turner quote various mortality rates, the most recent being that of the Mayo Clinic which records 153 litholapaxies and 395 suprapubic lithotomies with death rates of 1.3 and 8.6 per cent, respectively. These figures presumably refer to well-fed Americans, whereas Sir Peter Fryer's figures consist chiefly of Indian rvots?a very different proposition. In my opinion Sir Peter's recor...