Large Brushite Stone in a Dilated Prostatic Urethra

  • Kato, Haruaki
  • Ogawa, Akimi

  • From the Department of Urology, Shinshu University School of Medicine, Matsumoto, Japan

Accepted January 29, 1987.

Journal of Urology 138(1):p 154-155, July 1987. | DOI: 10.1016/S0022-5347(17)43031-X

ABSTRACT

We report a rare case of a large brushite stone lodged in a dilated prostatic urethra. The patient had been asymptomatic except for an episode of hematuria and he underwent successful removal of the stone. The stone weighed 35 gm., had a concentric layered structure and was composed mainly of brushite.

Copyright © 1987 by the American Urological Association, Inc.