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This Man's Bladder Stone Was Almost As Big As an Ostrich Egg
« on: September 09, 2017, 12:47:33 pm »
This Man's Bladder Stone Was Almost As Big As an Ostrich Egg
By Sara G. Miller, Staff Writer | September 6, 2017 05:50pm ET

 
The panel on the left shows a scan of the man's abdomen. The large white circle is the neobladder stone, and above it, a black arrow points to another stone in the man's left ureter. The middle panel shows the man's abdomen from the side, and the panel on the right shows the egg-shaped neobladder stone after it was surgically removed.
 

When a man in California went to the hospital because of bladder problems, doctors found a large reason for his pain: a mineral stone nearly the size of an ostrich egg, according to a new report of the case.

https://www.livescience.com/60332-bladder-stone-the-size-of-ostrich-egg.html
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