A 20 year old, otherwise healthy, G2PO, 21 week pregnant female presented to the emergency department with a one day history of left flank pain, nausea, and vomiting. She denied a history of fevers, chills, or dysuria. Physical examination revealed left costovertebral angle tenderness. Laboratory evaluation was significant for leukocytosis (14,000), normal creatinine (0.6), and unremarkable uri...

In August 2015, a 35-year-old man presented from an outside hospital with chest pain, recurrent left lower lobe pneumonia and a pleural mass seen on chest radiograph. Physical exam revealed multiple café-au-lait spots on his face, back, chest, abdomen, and legs that ranged from 5mm to 15mm, as well as nodules present on the patient’s right flank, as seen in (Figure 1), and lateral to his left e...

Our report details a robotically assisted laparoscopic calyceal diverticulectomy in a 14 year old female. This novel approach has not previously been described in the pediatric population. Our patient presented with hematuria and flank pain after an episode of blunt trauma. Robotically assisted laparoscopic diverticulectomy was successfully performed and the patient discharged home the followin...

Objective: Renal infarction (RI), which is caused by sudden cessation of renal blood flow, a rare disease. In this study, we planned to investigate the demographic and clinical characteristics outcomes patients diagnosed with in emergency department.
 Material Methods: Patients over age 18 who presented department abdominal/flank pain, nausea, vomiting between 2010 2021 were acute contrast...

Introduction: Ruptured renal Angiomyolipoma (AML) is a life-threatening condition that may mimic other diagnoses in the clinical presentation, and if not diagnosed promptly, it can lead to bleeding shock. Case report: In this paper, we report case of 56-year-old previously healthy Saudi man who presented with isolated left flank pain. The patient was initially treated as colic, possibly caused ...

CASE PRESENTATION A 62-year-old woman presented to her family physician with a twomonth history of a slowly growing left flank mass. She was previously well except for recurrent urinary tract infections; there was no recent travel or trauma. An ultrasound demonstrated a benign-appearing left renal cyst. Three weeks later, she began to develop flank pain, fevers, chills, night sweats and erythem...

Copyright © 2006 Massachusetts Medical Society. A 38-year-old man reports pelvic pain, dysuria, and urinary urgency for the past 4 weeks. He has had several similar episodes over the past 2 years; urine cultures were not performed. He is sexually active and notes frequent discomfort after ejaculation. He is otherwise healthy and takes no medication. He does not have fever, chills, or flank pain...