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What Causes Discharge Of A Black Stone From The Urethra During Urination?
Question: What would cause a man to expel a small black pebble like object when unrinating. No pain at all.
Brief Answer:
Stones in the urinary tract
Detailed Answer:
Hi,
You seem to have expelled a small stone from the urethra. This stones are generally formed because of various metabolism and filtering actions at the kidney level. Smaller stones lesser than 5 mm and sometimes up to 10mm are likely to pass spontaneously. Something of this had happened with you as well. Many a time it be associated with blood but few instances it would not have blood.
The other reason could be mass from the prostate.
Neverethless you should get examined by a Urologist and may be CT scan Kidney bladder and ureters to check for more stones in the tract.
Stones in the urinary tract
Detailed Answer:
Hi,
You seem to have expelled a small stone from the urethra. This stones are generally formed because of various metabolism and filtering actions at the kidney level. Smaller stones lesser than 5 mm and sometimes up to 10mm are likely to pass spontaneously. Something of this had happened with you as well. Many a time it be associated with blood but few instances it would not have blood.
The other reason could be mass from the prostate.
Neverethless you should get examined by a Urologist and may be CT scan Kidney bladder and ureters to check for more stones in the tract.
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Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar
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