BACKGROUND Wilms' tumor is the commonest primary malignant renal tumor in childhood. Rarely, it may present in the adult age group. CASE PRESENTATION We report a 48-year-old male presenting with flank pain and haematuria. Abdominal ultrasound revealed a right renal mass measuring 11 x 10 cms, and a clinical diagnosis of renal cell carcinoma was made. Nephrectomy was performed, and a final dia...

Acute renal infarction is a well known, although relatively unfrequent, cause of flank pain resistant to administration of spasmolytic and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs. We present an original case of a 41-year-old man, complaining of acute severe left flank pain, resistant to common analgesic therapy, who was diagnosed of segmental renal infarction of a branch of left renal artery. Path...

Multicystic nephroma is a relatively rare tumor of the kidney presenting unclear histological origin. Abdominal mass is a common onset sign in children while abdominal flank pain or abdominal discomfort, hematuria and recurrent urinary tract infections usually affect adults. Preoperative diagnosis is impossible especially in the adult variant of the tumor where clear cells carcinoma with cystic...

A 56-year-old woman was referred by her family (150/100 mmHg). The family history was positive for hypertension and blood pressure was perfectly condoctor to our outpatient hypertension clinic for further evaluation of hypertension and a small left kidney. trolled (120/70 mmHg) with an ACE-inhibitor. Because of the pain in the left flank, 3 weeks The patient was referred with the suggestion tha...

BACKGROUND Acute renal infarction is a rare entity with varied misleading manifestations resulting in diagnostic delay, misdiagnosis, and treatment leading to renal damage. CASE PRESENTATION We report the case of a 28-year-old Dalit Nepalese man who presented with sudden onset occipital headache and later developed severe left flank pain. He was diagnosed with posterior cerebral infarction wi...

Background Acute flank pain and hematuria is a common ED presenting symptom, Bedside emergency renal US performed and interpreted by EPs with limited training and experience is increasing in use and gaining acceptance. Emergency renal ultrasonography concentrates on the focused presence or absence of hydronephrosis as is often seen in patients with acute flank pain secondary to renal colic. ED ...

A 54-yr-old womanwas admitted to our department because of intermittent urinary tract infection, fever and right flank pain for 2 months after having been performed a tension-free vaginal tape (TVT) for stress urinary incontinence in local hospital. 2 weeks before admission, the fever exceeded 39 C and the right flank pain became severe. The patient had had involuntary leakage of urine associat...

Renal infarction is a rare cause of acute flank and abdominal pain. It usually occurs in patients with cardiac disease or a history associated with a high risk of thromboembolism. Malignancy is a well known hypercoagulable state. We herein report the first case of colon adenocarcinoma complicated with renal infarction, presenting with flank pain and hematuria mimicking renal colic. The clinical...

Adrenal myelolipoma is a rare and benign tumour composed of mature adipose tissue and haematopoietic elements that resemble bone marrow. It is mostly discovered incidentally on imaging of abdomen done for non adrenal related reasons or at autopsy. Usually asymptomatic, but has been reported to present with symptoms such as flank pain resulting from tumour bulk, necrosis or spontaneous retroperi...

Lumbar hernias (LH) accounts for less than 1.5% of total hernia incidence. It can occur in two separate triangular areas of the flank. About 300 cases have been reported in the literature. Here, we report a 55-year old man with acute painful left side flank mass and final diagnosis of LH. The mass was appeared about three hours before admission and his pain was slight at first but became more s...