Renal colic at emergency departments. Epidemiologic, diagnostic and etiopathogenic study.

Objectives: To investigate epidemiologic, etiopathogenic and clinical factors associated with emergency renal colic (RC). METHODS ANDS RESULTS: We performed a prospective cross-sectional multicenter case-control study of 146 patients treated for RC at emergency departments. Data collected included age, sex, localization/severity of pain, symptoms, personal/family medical history, urine analysis, etiopathogenic factors, chemical composition of the lithiasis, and x-ray studies.

[Complete triple ureter. Case report].

Objective: To report the case of a left complete triple ureter with ureteral pyelocalicial system draining independently into the bladder in a patient consulting for episodes of right renal colic.

Methods/results: 27-year-old female patient consulting for episodes of right renal colic. Several studies including intravenous urography and CT scan were performed revealing a right renal lithiasis and a double ureteral pyelocalicial system on the right side; the left kidney showed three pyelocalicial systems with three ureters, draining each of them separately into the bladder.

[Obstructive anuria secondary to left external iliac artery aneurysm. Case report].

Objective: To report one case of obstructive anuria due to ureteral compression by an external iliac artery aneurysm in a patient with a single kidney.

Methods/results: We report the case of a 76-year-old male with a single kidney presenting at the emergency department with left lumbar pain and anuria for several days. Hydronephrosis of the solitary left kidney due to an aneurysmatic tumor of the external iliac artery was diagnosed after performing various tests (ultrasound, arteriography).

[Lithiasis of soft appearance within a calyceal diverticulum in the right kidney. Report of one case and therapeutic management].

Objectives: To report the case of a 28-year-old female patient carrying a lithiasis of soft appearance located within a calyceal diverticulum in the right kidney which presented clinically during pregnancy, and to comment on therapeutic management, as well as the outcome one year after conservative treatment.

Methods And Results: 28-year-old female patient with history of renal colic during pregnancy, who presents at our clinics in the postpartum period with a recurrent abdominal and lumbar pain. Kidney-ureter-bladder (KUB) x-ray and intravenous urography (IVP) detected a lithiasis of soft appearance within a calyceal diverticulum in the right kidney.

[Calcified uterine myoma. Presentation of 3 cases].

Objectives: To report three cases of uterine myoma as cause of pelvic calcification and to establish differential diagnosis with bladder stones.

Methods/results: Three asymptomatic female patients, ages between 54 years (one patient) and more than 70 years (two patients), were fortuitously found to have calcified uterine myomas by radiological studies made for suspicion of other pathologies.

Conclusions: Discovering of calcified uterine myomas is not frequent.