title: Familial prostatic calcification in childhood associated with cranial-bone thickening: Review of literature and report of three cases.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To review the few published cases of prostatic calculi, a rare condition in children, and to report three further cases.
  
  
  METHODS
  The databases PUBMED and HINARI were searched using the keywords 'childhood' and 'prostatic calculi'; the search included reports from 1956 to the present. Further cases from three families with children having prostatic calculi are reported here.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Four cases were recorded previously but no association was stated between the presence of calculi and cranial-bone abnormality.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Prostatic calculi in childhood are rare; the condition requires further study and clarification.
authors.affiliation: Department of Urology, Medical City Hospital, Baghdad, Iraq.
authors.forename: Usama Nihad
authors.initials: UN
authors.lastname: Rifat
authors.affiliation: Department of Urology, Medical City Hospital, Baghdad, Iraq.
authors.forename: Mustafa
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Mohammed
keywords: Childhood; Cranial bone; Prostatic calculi