Gas-Containing Renal Stones: A Case Report and Literature Review

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We report the 11th case of gas containing renal stone. A 92-year-old Chinese female presented with fever and lower urinary tract symptoms. Urine culture grew Escherichia coli (E. coli). CT abdomen pelvis showed a large gas containing partial staghorn stone. She was managed conservatively with two weeks of antibiotics. Follow up plain kidney, ureter and bladder (KUB) radiograph at 3 months showed that the stone was stable in size. She remained asymptomatic at follow up.



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Case Report & Literature Review
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Received: Fri 14, Feb 2020
Accepted: Mon 02, Mar 2020
Published: Tue 17, Mar 2020
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© 2023 Lim Tze Ying Benjamin. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Hosting by Science Repository.
DOI: 10.31487/j.JSCR.2020.01.08

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Lim Tze Ying Benjamin Lim Sey Kiat Koh Li-Tsa

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Lim Tze Ying Benjamin
Department of Urology, Changi General Hospital, Singapore

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