R organ injury, especially ureteral injury, is a rare complication associated with surgical repair of lumbar disc hernia (LDH).(1-3) A 44-year-old male patient was admitted to the urology department with a history of left flank pain, fever, and intermittent hematuria. He had a history of repeat surgical repair of an LDH at the same level 1 month previously. Ultrasound examination revealed a mul...

BACKGROUND Calyceal fistulas are common and difficult to treat after surgery of urinary collecting system. METHODS A 30-year old woman. The fifth day after receiving a cadaver donor renal allograft presented an acute rejection episode; fourteen days later presented an urinoma treated with a percutaneous drainage tube. Five days later surgical exploration was made, lower pole infarction and is...

Numerous surgical procedures have been developed for urinary diversion in patients who have undergone a radical cystectomy for bladder cancer or, less frequently, a benign condition. Because urinary diversion procedures are complex, early and late postsurgical complications frequently occur. Possible complications include alterations in bowel motility, anastomotic leaks, fluid collections (absc...

Percutaneous renal surgery (PRS) is the established procedure to treat several renal conditions, such as large renal stones, ureteropelvic obstruction, and upper tract transitional cell carcinoma. Complications, including urinary tract infections, bleeding necessitating transfusion, extravasation, and transient ureteral obstruction, are uncommon. Other well described complications are pneumotho...

Postoperative urinary retention (POUR) is a known complication following a variety of procedures, with a reported incidence of 2.1-3.8% in general surgery and up to 52% in anorectal surgery. We report a case of POUR in a female resulting in severe unilateral hydronephrosis with a perinephric urinoma due to a ruptured fornix. The extent of hydroureter caused an axial rotation upon itself produci...

INTRODUCTION The Page kidney is a rare phenomenon that refers to hypertension resulting from any external compression of a kidney by a hematoma, tumor, lymphocele, or urinoma. The activation of the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system is believed to be the main mechanism responsible for development of resistant hypertension in Page kidney. CASE PRESENTATION We reported a patient with chronic ...

Urinothorax (UT) is a rare and often undiagnosed condition, defined as the presence of urine in the pleural cavity due to the retroperitoneal leakage of urine accumulation, known as urinoma, into the pleural space. UT usually is a transudative pleural effusion that presents in patients with obstructive uropathy and it may occur following surgical procedures in the ureter or kidney such as ESWL,...

INTRODUCTION Renal trauma occurs in approximately 1%-5% of all trauma cases. Improvements in imaging and management over the last two decades have caused a shift in the treatment of this clinical condition. MATERIALS AND METHODS A systematic search of PubMed was performed to identify relevant and contemporary articles that referred to the management and evaluation of renal trauma. RESULTS C...