[Giant renal lithiasis].
OBJECTIVE
To describe a case of giant renal calculus.


RESULTS
A 57-year-old female with a previous history of left renal calculus 30 years earlier, consulted for episodes of gross hematuria. The imaging studies showed a giant, spherical calculus, 9 cm in diameter, in the left renal pelvis with hydronephrosis and remaining renal parenchyma functioning. The patient refused surgery.


CONCLUSIONS
Giant renal calculi may progress slowly, without symptoms and without abolishing renal function.
Valero Puerta
J A
JA
Servicio de Urología, Hospital de la Merced, Osuna, Sevilla, España.
Medina Pérez
M
M
Aranzana Gómez
M G
MG
Valpuesta Fernández
I
I
Sánchez González
M
M
D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007669:Kidney Calculi / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology*; D011859:Radiography