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Actions	Prostatic calculus Remove from selection Add to selection Object numberGC.7406 TitleProstatic calculus DescriptionPROSTATE Prostatic calculus. From a male in Sierra Leone age 50. He had a right hydrocele of twenty-three years’ duration and a stricture of the urethra which was supposed to be post-gonococcal. A bougie impinged on a stone apparently at the neck of the bladder. On suprapubic cystotomy, however, there was no vesical calculus but a stone replacing the prostate and the mucosa required free incision before the stone could be removed. Death occurred four weeks later from kidney disease. The calculus probably originated in the kidney and became impacted in the prostatic urethra forming a prostatic pouch. it increased by accretion the prostate has atrophied and the calculus has taken its place. Production placeSierra Leone Production date 1928 Object namePROSTATE Object categoryAnatomical, specimen

Object numberGC.7406

TitleProstatic calculus

DescriptionPROSTATE Prostatic calculus. From a male in Sierra Leone age 50. He had a right hydrocele of twenty-three years’ duration and a stricture of the urethra which was supposed to be post-gonococcal. A bougie impinged on a stone apparently at the neck of the bladder. On suprapubic cystotomy, however, there was no vesical calculus but a stone replacing the prostate and the mucosa required free incision before the stone could be removed. Death occurred four weeks later from kidney disease. The calculus probably originated in the kidney and became impacted in the prostatic urethra forming a prostatic pouch. it increased by accretion the prostate has atrophied and the calculus has taken its place.

Production placeSierra Leone

Production date 1928

Object namePROSTATE

Object categoryAnatomical, specimen

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