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Calculus from a urinary bladder

GC.6239

Urinary bladder. Calculus from a From the retroprostatic pouch of an old man the subject of prostatic hyperplasia. Discomfort was only experienced on removal of the residual urine of which there was a considerable amount. The calculus is composed of calcium oxalate and urate of ammonium. From a central consolidation there radiate spinous processes of which the longest measures some 12 mm.

Twentieth century