[Bladder stone secondary to migration of an acupuncture needle].
A 61-year-old man who had been suffering from benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) for ten years visited our hospital complaining of dysuria and bladder pain. Abdominal X-ray showed a 2 cm calculus containing a needle-like shadow in the pelvis. Transurethral lithotripsy and trunsurethral resection of the prostate (TURP) were done. The calculus was a brown club-shaped bladder stone with the core being a 2 cm needle one side of which was broken. It was supposed to be an acupuncture needle that was retained in his back twenty years ago. This is the first case of a bladder stone secondary to migration of an acupuncture needle.
Department of Urology, International Goodwill Hospital.
Koji
K
Izumi
Akitoshi
A
Takizawa
Koichi
K
Udagawa
Tetsuo
T
Murai
Masaru
M
Murai
D026881:Acupuncture / Q000295:instrumentation*; D005548:Foreign-Body Migration / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009339:Needles; D001744:Urinary Bladder Calculi / Q000209:etiology*