Traveling bullets in genitourinary tract.
A bullet lodged in the renal parenchyma, then migrated into the collecting system over a two-month period causing acute renal colic and necessitating removal by pyelotomy. A review of the literature discloses only 8 cases of projectiles migrating in the urinary tract, 5 involving metallic fragments and 3 involving bullets.
D000328:Adult; D003085:Colic / Q000209:etiology; D005260:Female; D005547:Foreign Bodies / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology; D005548:Foreign-Body Migration / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D007668:Kidney / Q000098:blood supply; D007674:Kidney Diseases / Q000209:etiology; D007682:Kidney Pelvis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery; D014566:Urogenital System; D014567:Urography; D014948:Wounds, Gunshot / Q000150:complications