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Traumatic avulsion of kidney into the chest through a ruptured diaphragm in a boy
Z Cohen1, A Gabriel, S Mizrachi
1Department of Pediatric Surgery, Soroka University Medical Center, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel.
Pediatric Emergency Care
|July 11, 2000
Abstract:
This report presents a case of a teenage patient who survived following severe blunt trauma with complete avulsion of the right kidney into the chest through a ruptured diaphragm. The combination of kidney avulsion into the chest is extremely rare. Only three similar cases have been reported in the English literature to date (1-3).