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How is the typical renal colic decription?

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● • Brutal (severe) start. ● Acute pain, without analgesic position. ● Unilateral lumbar pain, radiating downwards and forwards along the ureter to the external genitals. ● Evolution by paroxysmal crisis. ● Agitation and anxiety. ● Urinary functional signs: pollakiuria (extraordinary daytime urinary frequency), urinary burns, hematuria (if the calculus is at the level of the uretero-vesical junction). ● Digestive signs: nausea, vomiting, transit stop (ileus), see pseudo-occlusive table.


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