Vaginal Stone Research Articles

Primary vaginal stones

A case report of primary struvite vaginal stone found in a twelve-year-old female with meningomyelocele is presented. The etiology, diagnosis, and management are described.

Primary Vaginal Stone following Abdomino-perineal Excision of the Rectum with Total Hysterectomy

Primary Vaginal Stone following Abdomino-perineal Excision of the Rectum with Total Hysterectomy

Reproductive tract calculi, their induction, age incidence, composition and biological effects in Balb/c Crgl mice injected as newborns with estradiol-17 beta.

Preputial and vaginal stone formation and a variety of other severe effects on the reproductive tract were observed in 5- and 1 0-month-old Balb/c mice after injection of 50 �g estradiol-1 713/day for the first 5 days of life. Weight and frequency of stones in females increased with age and urine pH. Urine pH and weight of stones increased but frequency of stones decreased with age in males. Vaginal calculi contained more calcium, but their elemental composition was otherwise similar to preputial stones. Crystalline structure varied with age and sex and the shift from apatite to struvite coincided with the presence of inflammation in both sexes. A syndrome of infertility, severe genital infection, testicular atrophy and necrosis, seminal vesicle and prostatic atrophy, formation of epididymal cysts and senile epithelial hyperplasia and dysplasia was also present in males. Stone deposition was not dependent on the presence of urine stasis. Female mice injected with testosterone as newborns developed small concretions in the vaginal fornix in 37% of animals by 10 months of age. Similar urinary and reproductive tract abnormalities are induced by perinatal estrogen in female humans and rodents. Our studies show that there are also major reproductive and urinary effects of perinatal estradiol in male rodents. Male humans should be closely monitored for similar sequelae after early life exposure to estradiol.

Vaginal Stone in a Male Pseudohermaphrodite

A rare case of vaginal stone in a male pseudohermaphrodite who had undergone plastic surgery for external genitalia 16 years ago is presented. It is recommended to remove the entire wall of vagina musculina at the time of plastic repair for hypospadias in a male pseudohermaphrodite.

A primary vaginal stone.

Halban (1900) reported the first case of calculi occurring in a vaginal cystocoele. Twenty-three cases of colpolithiasis have been reported since (Alattar, 1966) and the literature on the subject has been reviewed by Stanfield (1942) and LeCocq (1960). The rarity of a primary vaginal stone prompts us to report the following unusual case, thus bringing the total of reported cases to 24. E. H., B.C.H. NO. 2090998, a 72-year-old female, suffering from multiple sclerosis of 20 years' duration, was known to be bedridden for the past 14 years. She was admitted to the Boston City Hospital with abdominal pain, urinary incontinence and fever. Positive findings, on physical examination, included contractures of the lower extremities and a stony hard mass in the vagina.