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...least possibility risking any lesion to lung. An incision about four to five inches long on left lower abdomen was made through which an L-shaped stone was removed from lower part left ureter in about 12 minutes. Thorough exploration of entire ureter upwards to kidney, downwards to urinary bladder and careful repair wound required altogether about 50 minutes.* One extraordinary thing about operation is that peritoneum not opened or in other words the abdominal cavity was not laid open. There practically no loss blood except what was expected on making superficial incision and consequently no risk for any post...
...Kidney and gallstones are the commonest accretions in the body. Kidney stones, caused by defective kidneys permitting salts to precipitate from the urine, are chiefly mineral (calcium oxalate, calcium phosphate, sodium urate). Gallstones are masses of organic cholesterin gathered from the bile by a lazy or infected gall bladder...
...inventing, 30 years ago, the cystoscope which allowed Surgeon Young to explore the Quezon bladder before the operation, the South- western branch of the American Urological Association last week gave Dr. Bransford Lewis, 72, a gold plaque in St. Louis. Simultaneously St. Louis University, where he is professor-emeritus of urology, gave Dr. Lewis a commemorative gold medal...
...nightmares that haunt an able surgeon, none is worse than his fear of infection after an abdominal operation. When he goes after an appendix, a ruptured spleen, a gall bladder, a twisted or telescoped bowel or a cancered stomach, he never knows at what moment the sewage system of the human body may, for all his skill, spring a leak, with disastrous results...
Died. Paul May, Belgian Ambassador to the U. S. since 1931; after an operation for a gall-bladder ailment; in Washington...