KIDNEY URETER renal calculus

URINARY CALCULUS

This  is a common surgical condition and at a hospital  in  Delhi

over  4,000  cases  were treated in  twenty  years,  constituting

nearly 14% of all surgical hospital admissions.

Urinary  calculus  consists  of a  crystalline  component  and  a

mixture   of   mucoprotein  and  mucopolysachride   holding   the

crystalline material together. The etiology is unknown,  however,

stones do occur in conditions, where the solute concentration  in

urine rises or there is change in pH. Other contributing  factors

are   stasis,   infection,   prolonged   immobilization,   hyper-

parathyroidism, cystinuria, oxaluria, etc.

Once  formed stones in kidney and ureter can manifest  with  pain

(dull  ache  or  ureteric colic) dysuria and  frequency  (due  to

infection) or haematuria.

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