A 72-year-old woman with a 30-year history of paraplegia was referred to the urology clinic for treatment of a bladder stone. CT of the abdomen revealed a large bladder stone with a tree ring ...

Doctors had suspected she might have a bladder stone, but when they investigated it further, they discovered a mass measuring about 2.4 inches by 3.1 inches by 3.5 inches - almost as big as a ...

A bladder stone the size of a baseball—and with growth rings inside it just like a tree trunk—was spotted inside a 72-year-old woman. The woman, who has been paralyzed from the chest down for ...

A urinary bladder stone, also referred to as bladder calculus, is a hard mass of minerals that accumulates in the bladder. It happens when there is a buildup of urine in the bladder for a long ...