title: Nephrobronchial fistula. Case report.
abstract: A 26-year-old woman presented with a six-year history of right staghorn calculus and pyonephrosis. Intravenous pyelography showed a non-functioning right kidney and chest radiography, an elevated right hemidiaphragm and fluid in the right costaphrenic space. At operation a nephrobronchial fistula was found, and nephrectomy and subdiaphragmatic drainage of the lung abscess was carried out. Culture of the pus grew Proteus mirabilis. The patient made an uneventful recovery and was discharged on the sixteenth day after operation.
authors.affiliation: Urology Department of N.I.M.T.S. Hospital, Athens, Greece.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kyriakopoulos
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Stathopoulos
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kourti
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Pandis
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001983:Bronchial Fistula / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007669:Kidney Calculi / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D008169:Lung Abscess / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery; D009392:Nephrectomy; D011512:Proteus Infections / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery; D011513:Proteus mirabilis; D011704:Pyelonephritis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery; D014548:Urinary Fistula / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D014567:Urography