title: Iatrogenic main renal artery injury: treatment by endovascular stent-graft placement.
abstract: We report on a patient who presented with perforation of the left main renal artery as a complication of a percutaneous retroperitoneal drainage procedure. Only a small number of cases of iatrogenic main renal artery perforations have been reported, none of them due to a percutaneous drainage attempt. Endovascular treatment by means of a coronary stent-graft was successful.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, University Hospitals Gasthuisberg, Herestraat 49, 3000 Leuven, Belgium. sam.heye@uz.kuleuven.ac.be
authors.forename: Sam
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Heye
authors.forename: Dirk
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Vanbeckevoort
authors.forename: Daniël
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Blockmans
authors.forename: André
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Nevelsteen
authors.forename: Geert
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Maleux
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001027:Aortography; D019917:Blood Vessel Prosthesis Implantation; D002295:Carcinoma, Transitional Cell / Q000473:pathology; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D006801:Humans; D007049:Iatrogenic Disease; D008297:Male; D011138:Polytetrafluoroethylene; D015641:Radiography, Interventional; D012077:Renal Artery / Q000293:injuries* / Q000601:surgery; D015607:Stents; D014055:Tomography, Emission-Computed; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D001749:Urinary Bladder Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology
chemical_list: D011138:Polytetrafluoroethylene