European Journal of Pediatric Surgery Reports (Jun 2015)

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

  • Mehmet Kaba,
  • Necip Pirinççi,
  • Sultan Kaba,
  • Ufuk Çobanoğlu,
  • Recep Eryılmaz,
  • Hüseyin Eren

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1055/s-0034-1372463
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 03, no. 01
pp. 015 – 017

Abstract

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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.

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