UNUSUAL VESICAL CALCULI.

The Weight of Vesical Calculi

An unusual vesical calculus.

We report a 52 year old patient presenting with a bladder stone formed over a migrated intrauterine device (Copper-T). Her history was pertinent for intrauterine contraceptive (IUCD) device placement 10 years back. Investigations included plain ultrasound of abdomen, X-ray of abdomen, urinalysis, and urine culture. Ultrasound and plain X-ray of the pelvis confirmed a bladder stone formed over a...

Case of Multiple Vesical and Urethral Calculi

Ali Mahomed, a Mahomedan male aged about 13 years, resident of Buri Khail in Mianwali division, cultivator by occupation, came to Mianwali dispensary on the 8th November 1878 complaining of a stone in his urethra and a stony feel in his bladder. Patient objected to be examined without chloroform. He was ordered to have an ounce of castor-oil at 6 P. M. of 8th November and an enema of castor-oil...

Two Vesical Calculi of Peculiar Shape

stone being found to be of a large size and uncrushable, it was decided to remove it by suprapubic operation. On opening into the bladder the stone was found to be partly encysted in the urethra, and a very considerable portion of it was covered by the prostate. On removal it was found to weigh one ounce six drams and tweny-five grains. The boy made an uneventful recovery and was discharged cur...

The Rate of Growth of Vesical Calculi

Thomson and Miles in their Manual of Surgery, 1909, p. 713, state that " little is known of the rate of growth of vesical stone " and that " Guyon believes that a uric acid stone takes several years to attain a diameter of two inches." The following case, as throwing a little light on this point, may be of interest. R., a patient from Farah, Afghanistan, was operated on for vesical calculus by ...