Giant Bladder Stone: A Case Report

Giant bladder stones, weighing more than 100 g, are a rare entity in western practice, usually associated with bladder outlet obstruction, urinary tract infections, or the presence of intravesical foreign bodies. We present a case of a 53-year-old man with a giant bladder stone weighing 600 g. He un...

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Autores principales: Katsimperis, Stamatios, Pikramenos, Konstantinos, Livadas, Konstantinos, Chatzikrachtis, Nikolaos, Bellos, Themistoklis T
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
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Urology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9239294/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35774646
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.25439
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author Katsimperis, Stamatios
Pikramenos, Konstantinos
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description Giant bladder stones, weighing more than 100 g, are a rare entity in western practice, usually associated with bladder outlet obstruction, urinary tract infections, or the presence of intravesical foreign bodies. We present a case of a 53-year-old man with a giant bladder stone weighing 600 g. He underwent suprapubic cystolithotomy, had no major surgical complications, and was discharged with a significantly improved urine flow stream.
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spelling pubmed-92392942022-06-29 Giant Bladder Stone: A Case Report Katsimperis, Stamatios Pikramenos, Konstantinos Livadas, Konstantinos Chatzikrachtis, Nikolaos Bellos, Themistoklis T Cureus Urology Giant bladder stones, weighing more than 100 g, are a rare entity in western practice, usually associated with bladder outlet obstruction, urinary tract infections, or the presence of intravesical foreign bodies. We present a case of a 53-year-old man with a giant bladder stone weighing 600 g. He underwent suprapubic cystolithotomy, had no major surgical complications, and was discharged with a significantly improved urine flow stream. Cureus 2022-05-29 /pmc/articles/PMC9239294/ /pubmed/35774646 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.25439 Text en Copyright © 2022, Katsimperis et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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