Doctors discovered a huge bladder stone, as big as a baseball, when performing an ultrasound on a 72-year-old woman who was ...

A network of nerves similar to wires runs all through the human body, from the tips of your fingers and toes, through your ...

Pain may linger for a couple of days after the stone has passed. If the stone becomes lodged in the urethra, it can often be ...

No stone greater than 10 mm in longest diameter. All other causes the pain to be eliminated (by clinical judgment; and because the pain is in doubt assessment by family doctor medical specialist will ...

When stones form in the kidney and travel down the ureter (the tube that carries the urine from the kidney to the bladder), they can block the flow of urine, putting pressure on the kidney that leads ...

Ureteral stones are hard mineral masses that develop in the kidneys and then move into the ureter. They are known for causing ...

Find out where else “stones” can appear in your body, and how to tell. Sudden, intense pain is the hallmark of a kidney stone. See pictures of different types, the causes, symptoms ...

The two most common causes of kidney pain are kidney infections and kidney stones—both of which cause acute renal injury. An acute renal injury happens when your kidneys become injured suddenly.

Kidney stones happen when minerals form crystals inside the kidneys. Then they get bigger and become kidney stones. Kidney stones can move into the urinary tract. There, they can cause problems like ...

Correspondence to Ming-Yuan Huang, Emergency Department, Mackay Memorial Hospital, 92, Section 2, Chung-Shan North Road, Taipei 10449, Taiwan; m.c.yuan{at}yahoo.com.tw ...