A secondary vaginal stone. A case report

Diagn Imaging Clin Med. 1986;55(3):157-60.

Abstract

A case is presented of a large calculus that was formed in the vagina of a 44-year-old woman within less than 4 months. Urinary salts from a vesico-vaginal fistula deposited around an inadvertently unremoved medical gauze.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Female
  • Foreign Bodies / complications
  • Foreign Bodies / diagnostic imaging
  • Humans
  • Radiography
  • Surgical Mesh / adverse effects
  • Urinary Calculi / diagnostic imaging*
  • Urinary Calculi / etiology
  • Urinary Calculi / metabolism
  • Vaginal Diseases / diagnostic imaging*
  • Vaginal Diseases / etiology
  • Vaginal Diseases / metabolism
  • Vesicovaginal Fistula / complications