title: Percutaneous nephrolithotomy of a staghorn stone in thoracic ectopic kidney.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Urology and Renal Transplantation, Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, India.
authors.forename: Pratipal
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Singh
authors.forename: Vivek
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Vijjan
authors.forename: Manu
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Gupta
authors.forename: Deepak
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Dubey
authors.forename: Aneesh
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Srivastava
mesh_terms: 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