Percutaneous nephrostomy placement is a common treatment for obstructive uropathy of various causes. Although rare in the literature, tumor seeding along the nephrostomy tract is a potential risk of percutaneous nephrostomy in the treatment of obstructive symptoms secondary to urothelial carcinoma. In this case report, we present one such unusual outcome where urinary bladder urothelial cancer ...

PURPOSE We investigated the characteristics and management of patients with intravenous misplacement of a nephrostomy tube. MATERIALS AND METHODS Between July 2007 and July 2013, 4148 patients with urolithiasis underwent percutaneous nephrolithotomy (PCNL) in our hospital. Intravenous misplacement of a nephrostomy tube occurred in two of these patients. Another patient with intravenous mispla...

BACKGROUND Percutaneous nephrostolithotomy is important approach for kidney stones removal. A percutaneous nephrostomy drainage tube placement is an effective method to stop venous bleeding. Occasionally, the catheter can pierce into the renal parenchyma, and migrate into the renal vein even to the vena cava. CASE PRESENTATION A 66-year-old woman underwent a percutaneous nephrostolithotomy fo...

We describe a case of a splenic injury caused by a transsplenic percutaneous nephrostomy tract. The case was completed without incident and the nephrostomy tube was noted to traverse the spleen on routine postoperative imaging. This rare complication was managed by deposition of Gelfoam((R)) pledgets along the transsplenic nephrostomy tract and placement of a ureteral stent. This novel manageme...

INTRODUCTION The consequences of spinal cord injury upon urinary bladder are readily recognised by patients and health care professionals, since neuropathic bladder manifests itself as urinary incontinence, or retention of urine. But health care professionals and persons with spinal cord injury may not be conversant with neuropathic dysmotility affecting the ureter and renal pelvis. We report a...

Colonic perforation is a rare complication occurring during percutaneous nephrostomy. This report describes a patient with this complication, which was clinically silent. The patient was treated by conversion of the nephrostomy to a colostomy, followed by removal of the nephrostomy catheter. Similar cases reported in the literature have been treated conservatively. As colonic perforation is oft...

Percutaneous nephrostomy is a procedure of establishing a temporary drainage tract of renal pelvi-calyceal system through skin. This study aims to find out complication rate and ultimately the safety of ultrasound guided percutaneous nephrostomy for obstructive uropathy. About 196 patients were included in this study and PCN was done through Seldinger technique under USG guidance. Sepsis occurr...

PURPOSE Nephrostomy tube insertion and/or a ureteral stent placement is advised when pelvi-calyceal perforations are encountered during percutaneous nephrolithotomy (PNL) nevertheless totally tubeless PNL is a possible exit strategy in percutaneous renal surgery therefore case series on the short term clinical outcomes of noninvasive management of iatrogenic pelvicalyceal perforations encounter...