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[Giant renal lithiasis]
J A Valero Puerta1, M Medina Pérez, M G Aranzana Gómez
1Servicio de Urología, Hospital de la Merced, Osuna, Sevilla, España.
Archivos Espanoles De Urologia
|February 19, 2000
Abstract
Objective:
To describe a case of giant renal calculus.
Methods/Results:
A 57-year-old female with a previous history of left renal calculus 30 years earlier, consulted for episodes of gross hematuria. The imaging studies showed a giant, spherical calculus, 9 cm in diameter, in the left renal pelvis with hydronephrosis and remaining renal parenchyma functioning. The patient refused surgery.
Conclusion:
Giant renal calculi may progress slowly, without symptoms and without abolishing renal function.