title: Spontaneous retroperitoneal hemorrhage secondary to a renal cause.
abstract: Spontaneous rupture of normal renal parenchyma must indeed be rare. Virtually all patients in this paper had a significant abnormality that presented with bleeding. Our Case 5 is the only one without a clear underlying pathologic entity. We should stress the high incidence of associated disease in kidneys that bleed "spontaneously" and therefore the need for exploration and/or nephrectomy.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006470:Hemorrhage / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D007674:Kidney Diseases / Q000150:complications*; D007680:Kidney Neoplasms / Q000150:complications; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012187:Retroperitoneal Space; D012422:Rupture, Spontaneous