Renal Calculus

Renal Calculus Treated by Nephrectomy

A Case of Renal Calculus

The following case is interesting from the completeness of the history and the satisfactory termination. Mr. G., European, merchant by occupation, age thirty-eight years, consulted me in September of this year for severe pain in the back and left loin ; he gave me a gouty family history and in regard to his present trouble said that he had had a somewhat similar attack a year previously which h...

A Case of Non-opaque Renal Calculus

ON the 4th of January a woman thirty years of age came to me with the complaint of pain low down in her left lower abdomen. This had been present intermittently for three weeks, and had begun at the time of her period, which was the first she had since March. She had no urinary symptoms of any kind. Three years before she had had swollen ankles for a few weeks, and had been fully investigated, ...

Acute Renal Colic from Ureteral Calculus

N Engl J Med 2004;350:684-93. Copyright © 2004 Massachusetts Medical Society. A 39-year-old man reports an eight-hour history of colicky pain in the right lower quadrant radiating to the tip of his penis. He had previously had a kidney stone, which passed spontaneously. Physical examination shows that he is in distress, is afebrile, and has tenderness of the right costovertebral angle and lower...

Intrarenal foreign body presenting as a renal calculus.

Retained surgical sponges, so called textilomas, are rare complications after abdominal surgeries. The estimated incidence is approximately 1 per 1,000-1,500 surgical operations. However the true incidence is difficult to determine mainly because of underreporting due to medical legal issues. In a retroperitoneal location these textilomas represent less than 17% of abdominal locations and repor...