Percutaneous nephrolithotomy of a staghorn stone in thoracic ectopic kidney.
Congenital thoracic ectopic kidney is a very rare developmental anomaly and the rarest form of all ectopic kidneys. It is usually asymptomatic and discovered incidentally on routine chest radiography. Herein we reported the first case of staghorn stone in a thoracic kidney managed successfully by percutaneous nephrolithotomy.
Singh
Pratipal
P
Department of Urology and Renal Transplantation, Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, India.
Vijjan
Vivek
V
Gupta
Manu
M
Dubey
Deepak
D
Srivastava
Aneesh
A
D000328:Adult; D006801:Humans; D007668:Kidney / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D007669:Kidney Calculi / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology* / Q000628:therapy*; D008297:Male; D009403:Nephrostomy, Percutaneous; D013909:Thorax / Q000002:abnormalities*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed