A 26-year-old female presented with a two-week history of right flank pain. She underwent abdomen ultrasound which revealed moderate pelvicalyceal dilatation in the right kidney and proximal ureter with no apparent cause. Intravenous pyelography showed a fish-hook (reversed 'J') shape of ureter. No renal tract calcification was noticed. The findings were consistent with that of a retrocaval ure...

A7-year-old girl with a 12-month history of intermittent left flank pain was transferred to our institution from an outside hospital. Severe pain occurred about once per month and was associated with multiple episodes of nonbloody, nonbilious emesis. The pain did not radiate and was not alleviated or exacerbated by anything else. Symptoms lasted 2 to 3 days and then gradually resolved. The pati...

A 19 years old, male patient presented with symptoms of smoky urine for 2 weeks, puffiness of face and diminished urine output for 3 weeks associated with occasional lower abdominal and flank pain. Patient's history, clinical findings and available investigations were strongly suggestive of Idiopathic Rapidly Progressive Glomerulonephritis. The patient showed excellent response to glucocorticoi...

A 45-year-old patient reported for a follow-up visit after a motor vehicle accident with a history of vague right flank pain. He underwent a pelvic radiograph which revealed a long bony protuberance arising from the right sacral region; the appearance was consistent with a sacral rib. However due to the limited nature of his complaints the patient denied any surgical treatment.

This report describes an 18-year-old woman presenting with abdominal distension, left flank pain, and hypertension. She had a huge abdominal mass, diagnosed as a mesenteric desmoid-type fibromatosis, causing compression of the left external iliac vessels and ureter, as well as elevated renin concentration and hypertension. After surgical removal of the mass, all signs improved including hyperte...

The authors report a case of a 41-year-old woman who was admitted to the emergency department of our hospital because of acute right flank pain. Laboratory investigations and cultures were negative. A transabdominal ultrasonography revealed a large mass of the upper pole of the right kidney as an incidental finding.

Bladder cancer is the most common malignancy of urinary tract and the seventh most common cancer in men with the peak incidence in the sixth decade of life. Our knowledge about bladder tumors in pediatric age group mainly relies on case series. The reported cases are mostly low grade and non-muscle invasive. We herein present a case of a 17-year-old male with metastatic high-grade muscle-invasi...

This study analyses the pre-disposing factors, diagnostic modalities, therapeutic options and prognostic factors involved in 7 subjects with renal abscess. Most often they presented with high fever and flank pain. USG and CT were used to establish the diagnosis. Urine culture yielded organisms in five cases and hence empirical antibiotic therapy for Gram-negative organism was offered. Complicat...

The acute flank pain syndrome: a common presentation of acute renal failure in young males in Iceland Sir, In 1987, the non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) suprofen was withdrawn from the market due to ∼400 cases of the so-called 'acute flank pain syndrome' (AFPS) which was ascribed to the drug [1]. AFPS, characterized by severe flank pain, acute renal failure and recovery within 1 or ...