ON MINIMAL HORSE-SHOE LEMMA

Horse-Shoe Kidney

Nephrolithiasis of the Horse-Shoe Kidney

Percutaneous nephrolithotomy (PCNL) in horse shoe kidneys.

OBJECTIVE To review our experience of PCNL in horse shoe kidneys. METHODS Between June 2001 and January 2005 we performed PCNL in 16 Horse shoe kidneys in 14 patients with calculi, 2 patients had bilateral calculi. Percutaneous puncture was made with patient in prone position. Their ages ranged between 4 to 52 years with a mean age of 26.3 years. Our mean stone burden was 820 mm2 (range 40-13...

Percutaneous Nephrolithotomy in Horse- shoe Kidney

Results: Sixteen (76.16%) subjects were man and 5 (23.80%) were women, with the mean age of 35 ± 12 years. Mean stone size was 37.2 ± 16.6 mm. Percutaneous nephrolithotomy was performed because of the stone size (over 20 mm) in 18 (85.68%) and failed SWL in 3 (14.28%). Stone numbers were more than one in 18 (85.68%) subjects, and were in the pelvis and at least one calyx. The most common access...

Calculus Hydronephrosis in a Horse-Shoe Kidney

The following case appears to be worthy 01 record on account of the rarity of renal stones in females and also because of the condition revealed afterwards. The patient, a Hindu child-widow, aged about 40 years, was admitted to the Java Arogya Hospital, Gwalior, on 8th March, 1931, complaining of a tumour in the abdomen of four months' duration. There was nothing of note in the personal history...