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Laparoscopic evacuation of a subcapsular renal hematoma causing symptomatic hypertension
C W Graham1, S C Lynch, P C Muskat
1Department of Urology, Wilford Hall Medical Center, Lackland AFB, Texas, USA.
We report the case of a subcapsular hematoma following extracorporeal shockwave lithotripsy which presented as symptomatic hypertension. When medical therapy proved ineffective, laparoscopic decompression of the hematoma corrected the hypertension.
We report the case of a subcapsular hematoma following extracorporeal shockwave lithotripsy which presented as symptomatic hypertension. When medical therapy proved ineffective, laparoscopic decompression of the hematoma corrected the hypertension.

