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Τρίτη 4 Σεπτεμβρίου 2018

Missed ureteral injury in a young man with stab injury

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An 18-year-old man was referred to us from the department of emergency surgery for management of his ureteric injury. The patient underwent exploratory laparotomy for bowel injury that he had sustained due to a stab wound to his left flank 1 month ago. At that time his ureteric injury was missed. Two weeks after being discharged he developed fever and his ultrasonogram was suggestive of a large left retroperitoneal collection with mild left hydronephrosis. A contrast-enhanced CT (CECT) scan was done that demonstrated leak of contrast from left ureter into the collection (figure 1A). The patient then underwent insertion of a percutaneous nephrostomy tube into the left kidney along with placement of a drain into the retroperitoneal collection. The drain placed into the collection had purulent output suggesting an infected urinoma. Two weeks later another CECT scan was done, which showed persistent retroperitoneal urinoma, and ureter...



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