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[Urinary calculus in the fossa navicularis]
Edgar Antonio Granados Loarca1, Carlos Salazar Monterroso, Carlos Robles
1Servicio de Urología, Hospitol General de Enfermedades, Zona 9, Instituto Guatemalteco de Seguridad Social, Guatemala.
Objective:
Evaluate the treatment of the meatus urethral lithiasis.
Methods/Results:
A case of a 52 year-old male patient is reported with a big stone in the urethral meatus. Male patient that consults for Micturitional Syndrome, disury and difficully when urinating, in whom felt induration of the glans and observed a water-pipe where the patient urinated. The Diagnoses was made by the observation and the palpation of the glans. It was extracted by meatoplasthy with good results.
Conclusions:
The treatment of the meatus urethral big lithiasis that causes obstruction is the meatoplasthy.
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