Percutaneous nephrolithotomy of a staghorn stone in thoracic ectopic kidney |
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| Authors: | Pratipal Singh Vivek Vijjan Manu Gupta Deepak Dubey Aneesh Srivastava |
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| Affiliation: | Department of Urology and Renal Transplantation, Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, India. |
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| Abstract: | Congenital thoracic ectopic kidney is a very rare developmental anomaly and the rarest form of all ectopic kidneys. It is usually asymptomatic and discovered incidentally on routine chest radiography. Herein we reported the first case of staghorn stone in a thoracic kidney managed successfully by percutaneous nephrolithotomy. |
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| Keywords: | ectopic kidney percutaneous nephrolithotomy renal stone thoracic kidney |
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