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There is ample evidence that bladder stones occurred in antiquity with the earliest known human bladder stone found in a predynastic grave at El Amrah in Upper Egypt dated about B.C. 4,800.
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Van Reen, R. (1976). Idiopathic Urinary Bladder Stone Disease. In: Fleisch, H., Robertson, W.G., Smith, L.H., Vahlensieck, W. (eds) Urolithiasis Research. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-4295-3_97
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