More than 90% of renal injuries in children result from blunt abdominal trauma. A 10-year-old female had a blunt abdominal trauma with macro-hematuria. The computed tomography scan revealed the presence of a horseshoe kidney and a 3rd grade renal lesion and contrast leakage from the right ureter. The ureteral rupture was confirmed by cystoscopy and ascendant pyelography and than a double J-sten...

Received May 2007 Accepted August 2007 INTRODUCTION Pseudoaneurysms of the renal artery occur most commonly after a penetrating trauma or as a complication of some renal interventional procedures such as kidney biopsy, percutaneous nephrostomy, and open or endoscopic surgeries on the kidney; however, their occurrence after blunt abdominal trauma is rare.(1) The average interval between injury a...

Renal trauma occurs in 1-5% of all trauma cases. The kidney is the most commonly injured genitourinary and abdominal organ. In this case we present a 17-year-old patient with a grade IV trauma of the left kidney with renal rupture, hematoma, and urinoma. He was referred to our hospital in hemodynamic stability; therefore, a conservative approach was chosen. One year after the accident the patie...

Introduction: Isolated injury to the upper urinary tract following blunt abdominal trauma is very rare. However, a preexisting renal abnormality will increase the risk of rupture. Case Report: We report a case with previously asymptomatic and undetected congenital pelviureteric junction obstruction who first presented with acute abdomen following trauma. Conclusion: A simple abdominal trauma wi...

Urologic trauma continues to be a dynamic and evolving subspecialty of urology. This is evident by the trauma papers published this past year. Highlights of the 2011 literature include a needed revision of renal trauma grading, increased use of large population-based datasets and multiple papers examining the use of angioembolization. Buckley and McAninch (1) revised the current American Associ...

BACKGROUND Initial management of solid organ injuries in hemodynamically stable patients is nonoperative. Therefore, early identification of those injuries likely to require surgical intervention is key. We sought to identify factors predictive of the need for nephrectomy after trauma. METHODS This is a retrospective review of renal injuries admitted over a 12-year period to a Level I trauma ...

The role of ultrasonography in diagnosing blunt renal trauma is uncertain because it is much less sensitive in detecting parenchymal organ injuries. Indirect evidence such as perinephric haematoma may be easier to identify by ultrasonography and it is highly suggestive of underlying renal parenchymal injury. A patient with significant renal injuries diagnosed by bedside ultrasonography is repor...

Renal artery thrombosis secondary to blunt abdominal trauma is distinctly rare. We report three cases of unilateral real artery thrombosis patients in our hospital and analyze its clinical diagnosis, therapeutic to the literature on the subject. In light of the classification of traumatic renal pedicle is not very distinct yet, we classify renal artery thrombosis for blunt abdominal trauma as a...

Hypertension is a known complication after renal trauma. The cause of posttraumatic hypertension can be renal scarring, infarction, hydonephrosis, infection, vascular injury, and parenchymal compression. The authors report on the case of a 16-year-old boy who experienced hypertension after blunt renal trauma. He had a dense fibrous pseudocapsule causing renal parenchymal compression, which lead...

Renal artery thrombosis secondary to blunt abdominal trauma is distinctly rare. We report three cases of unilateral real artery thrombosis patients in our hospital and analyze its clinical diagnosis, therapeutic to the literature on the subject. In light of the classification of traumatic renal pedicle is not very distinct yet, we classify renal artery thrombosis for blunt abdominal trauma as a...