A History of Bladder Stone

Mechanical testing of urinary calculi

“…Attempts to fragment bladder stones were made by ancient and medieval peoples, but it was not until recent times that Civiale and Bigelow established lithotrity and litholopaxy [9]. Open surgery for renal stones was the mainstay of treatment for upper tract calculi after the first deliberate nephrolithotomy performed by Morrison in 1880.…”

Jacob Aalls sykdom og død

“…While ever since antiquity attempts had been made to perform more or less hazardous operations to remove bladder stones (lithotomy) (5), since the mid-1820s a new treatment method had been introduced (6). At that time instruments had been constructed that could be inserted in through the urethra to crush the stones into small pieces, which …”

Laparoscopic Extraperitoneal Approach for Urinary Bladder Stones Removal – A New Operative Technique

“…The forming reasons are urinary infection, corpus alienum in bladder, obstruction or previous prostatic operation (Schwartz BF& Stoller ML, 2000). According to Ellis H. 1979 the first surgical operation to remove bladder stones is perineal lithotomy described by Aulus Celsus in first century AD. In 1561, Pierre Franco made suprapubic vesicotomy -the so called High operation.…”

“…In 1719 John Douglas, a brother of the famous surgeon James Douglas, described surgical technique based on opening the bladder after filling it with water without opening the peritoneum. This procedure made the High operation even more popular (H. Ellis, 1979). The open technique is currently applied successfully on aged patients and children (Chow & Chou, 2008).…”