A giant vesical calculus

Vesical calculi are common in urological practice. However, encountering a giant vesical calculus weighing more than 100 g is rather rare. We report a patient who presented with mild symptoms and was found to have a single giant vesical calculus weighing about 1334 g. Lack of access to basic medical...

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Autores principales: Chandrasekaran, Gopalakrishnan, Mathirajan, Chelian, Pandiarajan, Rajasabai
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2022
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Urological Image
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9380465/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35983122
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/iju.iju_103_22
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author Chandrasekaran, Gopalakrishnan
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description Vesical calculi are common in urological practice. However, encountering a giant vesical calculus weighing more than 100 g is rather rare. We report a patient who presented with mild symptoms and was found to have a single giant vesical calculus weighing about 1334 g. Lack of access to basic medical facilities and milder symptoms may be the predisposing factors in this patient for a calculus to enlarge into such abnormal weight.
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spelling pubmed-93804652022-08-17 A giant vesical calculus Chandrasekaran, Gopalakrishnan Mathirajan, Chelian Pandiarajan, Rajasabai Indian J Urol Urological Image Vesical calculi are common in urological practice. However, encountering a giant vesical calculus weighing more than 100 g is rather rare. We report a patient who presented with mild symptoms and was found to have a single giant vesical calculus weighing about 1334 g. Lack of access to basic medical facilities and milder symptoms may be the predisposing factors in this patient for a calculus to enlarge into such abnormal weight. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2022 2022-07-01 /pmc/articles/PMC9380465/ /pubmed/35983122 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/iju.iju_103_22 Text en Copyright: © 2022 Indian Journal of Urology https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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