title: Iatrogenic ureteral injury due to lumbar sympathetic block.
abstract: Lumbar sympathetic block (LSB) is used in the management of sympathetically maintained pain states. Complications of LSB may include infection, injury of spinal cord or somatic nerve, kidney trauma, hypotension, paraplegia and genitofemoral neuralgia. We present a case of a 53-year-old woman who had undergone LSB for the relief of reflex sympathetic dystrophy and subsequently a disrupted right proximal ureter. She was treated with ureteroureterostomy and an indwelling ureteral stent.
authors.affiliation: Department of Urology, Baskent University School of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey. drayhan_dirim@yahoo.com
authors.forename: Ayhan
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Dirim
authors.forename: Sükrü
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kumsar
mesh_terms: D001340:Autonomic Nerve Block / Q000009:adverse effects*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007049:Iatrogenic Disease; D008875:Middle Aged; D014513:Ureter / Q000293:injuries* / Q000601:surgery; D014519:Ureterostomy