Vesical Calculi: A Rare Cause of Dystocia

Vesical calculus as a cause of labour dystocia. Report of a case.

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 Weight of Vesical Calculi

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...

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 ...

Osteopoikilosis: a rare cause of bone pain

 Background: Osteopoikilosis (OPK) is a rare inherited condition of the bones, transmitted as an autosomal dominant trait characterized by numerous hyperostotic areas that tend to localize in periarticular osseous regions. It is usually asymptomatic and is often diagnosed incidentally during x-rays made by other reasons. We present a case of 34-year-old man suffering from polyarthralgia an...