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European J Pediatr Surg Rep. 2015; 03(01): 015-017
DOI: 10.1055/s-0034-1372463
Case Report
Georg Thieme Verlag KG Stuttgart · New York

A Rare Complication Observed during Percutaneous Nephrolithotomy: Foreign Body Migration from the Right Kidney to the Left Lung

Mehmet Kaba
1   Department of Urology, Faculty of Medicine, Yuzuncu Yıl University, Van, Turkey
,
Necip Pirinççi
1   Department of Urology, Faculty of Medicine, Yuzuncu Yıl University, Van, Turkey
,
Sultan Kaba
2   Department of Pediatric, Faculty of Medicine, Yuzuncu Yıl University, Van, Turkey
,
Ufuk Çobanoğlu
3   Department of Thoracic Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Yuzuncu Yıl University, Van, Turkey
,
Recep Eryılmaz
1   Department of Urology, Faculty of Medicine, Yuzuncu Yıl University, Van, Turkey
,
Hüseyin Eren
1   Department of Urology, Faculty of Medicine, Yuzuncu Yıl University, Van, Turkey
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24 December 2013

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Abstract

Percutaneous nephrolithotomy (PNL) is the first-line treatment in large, multiple stones and lower calyceal stones. Majority of complications associated with PNL are minor and clinically insignificant. It was seen that distal piece (2 cm in size) of ureter catheter observed at pelvis was found at the parenchyma of left lung on the perioperative fluoroscopy in the patient undergoing PNL for right kidney stone. We presented this complication to stress that a foreign body can pass into circulation presumably through venous injury and can migrate to the lung.

Keywords

foreign body - migration - percutaneous nephrolithotomy
 

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