A case of penetrating glass foreign body within the renal cortex.
A 32-year-old patient sustained a penetrating injury to the left flank and kidney after a fall backward onto a glass table. On computed tomography imaging, a 12×10×4 cm glass shard was identified penetrating the renal cortex. The patient was taken to the operating room to remove the foreign object. A rubber-shodded clamp was used to successfully remove the glass shard without complication. Although we commonly encounter stab wounds at our trauma center, the penetrating object is rarely present. The presence of the glass object resulted in a technically challenging and rare case.
Department of Urology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY. Electronic address: Rajiv.Jayadevan@mssm.edu.
Rajiv
R
Jayadevan
Department of Urology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY.
Steven
S
Weissbart
Department of Urology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY.
Alfred
A
Winkler
Department of Urology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY.
Hugh
H
Lavery
D000061:Accidents, Home; D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D005547:Foreign Bodies / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000601:surgery; D005898:Glass; D006801:Humans; D007672:Kidney Cortex / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000293:injuries* / Q000601:surgery; D018570:Risk Assessment; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed / Q000379:methods; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D014950:Wounds, Penetrating / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000209:etiology