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Percutaneous nephrolithotomy of an intrathoracic kidney
Dean L Lenz1, David L Clair, Arthur E Fetzer
1Division of Urology, Pennsylvania State University, Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, Pennsylvania, USA.
Urology
|February 25, 2003
Abstract:
We present a 35-year-old woman with symptomatic urolithiasis in an intrathoracic kidney. Percutaneous nephrolithotomy was successfully performed after ureteroscopy failed because of the unusual length of the ureter associated with the kidney position. We report the first case of percutaneous nephrolithotomy of an intrathoracic kidney.