title: Candida dubliniensis encrustation of an obstructing upper renal tract calculus.
abstract: We present the case of a 53-year-old man, with a history of alcohol abuse, requiring intensive care unit admission, with an obstructing right upper renal calculus and Klebsiella pneumoniae urosepsis. Ureteroscopic treatment of this obstruction displayed a small calculus within the renal pelvis completely encapsulated within a fungal bezoar. Laboratory analysis of the fungal mass found it to be Candida dubliniensis.
authors: Department of Urology, Gold Coast Hospital, Southport, Queensland, Australia. dermot_okane@yahoo.com
authors: Dermot
authors: D
authors: O'Kane
authors: Anthony
authors: A
authors: Kiosoglous
authors: Kay
authors: K
authors: Jones
mesh_terms: D002175:Candida / Q000145:classification; D002177:Candidiasis / Q000150:complications / Q000382:microbiology*; D005547:Foreign Bodies / Q000150:complications / Q000382:microbiology*; D006801:Humans; D007669:Kidney Calculi / Q000150:complications / Q000382:microbiology*; D007682:Kidney Pelvis; D007710:Klebsiella Infections / Q000150:complications; D007711:Klebsiella pneumoniae; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D018805:Sepsis / Q000150:complications; D018666:Ureteroscopy; D014552:Urinary Tract Infections / Q000150:complications
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