10th June 2021

An elderly lady is admitted and investigated for bowel obstruction

An elderly lady is admitted and investigated for bowel obstruction. She has not opened her bowels in several days, and her abdomen is distended. An abdominal x-ray reveals that she is extremely constipated. Incidentally, small renal stones are identified. The stones are small and have caused no symptoms or derangement in her urea and electrolytes, and she is passing urine as normal.

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