Giant Pyelic Stone: Clinical Image

Abstract

The management of giant stones of the upper urinary tract remains a challenge for the urologist because of the potential risk of treatment-related complications [1]. We report as a clinical picture the case of a 42-year-old patient received for chronic right lumbar pain in whom the CT scan performed revealed the presence of a giant pyelic stone (Figure 1a and 1b) whose dimensions on the sagittal plane are 43.1mmx41.5mm. The patient underwent an open pyelolithotomy in our department, which allowed the extraction of a giant pyelic calculus of 12cm (Figure 1c). The postoperative course was simple.