Giant Urethral Calculus without Acute Urinary Retention
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Ultrasonography of the Adult Male Urinary Tract for Urinary Functional Testing
Published on: August 14, 2019
Zainal Adwin Zainal Abidin1, Firdaus Hayati2, Guan Hee Tan3
1Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Selangor, Malaysia.
Abstract:
A 46-year gentleman presented with a left-sided lumbar region pain without fever or dysuria. He denied episodes of acute urinary retention. There was a hard mass at the distal urethra with normal laboratory blood tests. Computed tomography urogram revealed a concurrent left renal staghorn calculus and large distal urethral stone. The urethral stone was fragmented via endourologic technique successfully. We report a case of a non-obstructing large urethral calculus in a gentleman with concurrent left renal staghorn calculus and discuss the literature review.
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