A discogenic pain of low back is very important condition in orthopaedie field and the clinical study of it's proper care is also very interesting problem. The author has analysed in clinically about the 20 cases of the discogenic pain of low back who has hospitalized or visit to out clinic of orthopaedic surgery in Woo Sok Hospital, Korea University, since last 2 years from July 1970 to Aug. 1972, and the result of the clinical analysis is presented in this paper. 1) 13 cases out of 20 were male and 7 cases were female, which their average age was 48 years old. 2) 85% of those patients revealed their discogenic disease at the level of L4 disc. 3) Most of the clinical causes of the discogenic pain of low back were disc degeneration. 4) All of those patients complained their sciatic pain. 5) The choice of treatment were a fasciotomy of paravertebral muscles and the fascia lata. The results of fasciotomy treatment were as following 13 cases were excellent, 6 cases improved, and 1 case unchanged condition.
Clinical Study ; Fascia Lata ; Female ; Humans ; Intervertebral Disc Degeneration ; Korea ; Male ; Muscles

We present one case report of anterior urethral diverticulum in a male with giant calculi. The patient was a 56-year-old male with the complaints of base-ball sized palpable scrotal mass and post-void dribbling for 15-16 years. The diverticulum was filled with multiple whitish-yellow stones. The largest one was 8X7X6cm in size.
Calculi* ; Diverticulum* ; Humans ; Male* ; Middle Aged

Foreign bodies in the genitourinary tract are relatively common, and almost of them are discovered within the bladder. We had experienced a patient and report herein, who had a plastic tube in the bladder, introduced through urethra during masturbation. The size of the tube was 110cm in length and 0.5cm in diameter, and it was easily diagnosed by history, symptoms, simple KUB, cystoscopy, and was removed by foreign body forceps under the cystoscopy.
Cystoscopy ; Foreign Bodies* ; Humans ; Masturbation ; Plastics ; Surgical Instruments ; Urethra ; Urinary Bladder*