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During ten years from 1955 to 1964, there were 524 cases of urolithiasis among 7445 cases of total out-patients in our Derrnato-Urological Clinic.
The ratio of these patients to the total patients was 7.0%, and the patients with calculus in upper urinary tracts were on the increase, but these with calculus in the lower tracts were not so.
The following tables show several and statistical observations regarding the locations, sex, age, occupations, recurrence, chief complaints, and therapy on urolithiasis.
Regional distribution; kidney stone was seen in 120 cases (22.4%), ureteral stone in 304 cases (56.8%), bladder stone in 56 cases (11.7%), urethral stone in 18 cases (3.4%) and prostatic stone in 26 cases (4.8%).
Age, sex and side. The highest incidence was seen in the twenty decade which occupied 26.1%. Urolithiasis occured more frequently in male than in female, predilection was observed in the left side.
Symptom; The chief complaints were pain in the flank and abdomen (75%), and lumbago (14.6%).
Treatment. Operation was mainly carried out for the stone in the upper urinary tract.
