[Glass foreign body in the kidney]

A rare case is reported of a glass foreign body which hit the kidney of a 25-year-old man in the moment of left lumbar injury with window glass. A large fragment of the glass was removed outpatiently, but the second fragment which penetrated into the left kidney was not detected. The patient was admitted to the urological hospital 2 months after the injury. The wound on the left side of the low back has healed, but the patient had macrohematuria, pains and declined function of the left kidney. Echography and x-ray detected a foreign body in the parenchyma of the left kidney upper segment penetrating into the upper caliculus and pelvis. After lumbotomy and pyelotomy the fragment 6.2x0.8x0.3 cm was taken out from the kidney. A complete recovery of renal function followed.