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A Rare Complication of The Treatment of Simple Renal Cysts: Nephrostomy Catheter Breakage After Alcohol Treatment and Laparoscopic Management
A Rare Complication of The Treatment of Simple Renal Cysts: Nephrostomy Catheter Breakage After Alcohol Treatment and Laparoscopic Management
ABSTRACT ÖZ
The prevalence of simple renal cysts increases with age. Simple renal cyst Basit böbrek kistleri görülme sıklığı yaş ile artar. Perkütan nefrostomi
aspiration and sclerotherapy with percutaneous nephrostomy catheter is kateteri ile böbrek kist aspirasyonu ve kist duvarları içine sklerozan madde
frequently used in urological practice. This method can be applied under enjeksiyonu üroloji pratiğinde sık kullanılan bir yöntemdir. Lokal anestezi
local anesthesia and various complications of this method have been altında uygulanan bu yöntemin çeşitli komplikasyonları bildirilmiştir. Bu
reported. In this paper, we report an unusual complication of this method; olgu sunumunda perkütan nefrostomi yöntemine ait beklenmedik bir
the distal part of the nephrostomy catheter had separated after renal cyst komplikasyon olan kist aspirasyonu sonrası nefrostomi kateterinin distal
aspiration and laparoscopic procedure was used to remove the end part uç kısmının kopması ve pararenal lojda kistik duvarın içinde kalan bu
of the catheter which remained within the cyst wall in the pararenal area. kateter ucunun laparoskopik yöntemle çıkarılması sunulmuştur.
Keywords Anahtar Kelimeler
Simple cyst, alcohol, laparoscopy Basit kist, alkol, laparoskopi
Correspondence
Barbaros Başeskioğlu MD, Osmangazi University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Urology, Eskişehir, Turkey
Phone: +90 232 324 45 43 E-mail: barbaroza@gmail.com Received: 24.04.2015 Accepted: 29.04.2015
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The rates of hemorrhage and septic shock after percutaneous Authorship Contributions
nephrostomy are 1-4% and 1-9% (5), respectively. Other major Surgical and Medical Practices: Barbaros Başeskioğlu, Concept:
complications include failure of procedure, and liver, spleen, colon,
Barbaros Başeskioğlu, Design: Barbaros Başeskioğlu, Data Collection
and pleura injuries. Urine extravasation and urination with clot are
or Processing: Ali Ülgen, Analysis or Interpretation: Barbaros
considered to be minor complications. In the literature, extreme
Başeskioğlu, Ali Ülgen, Literature Search: Ali Ülgen, Writing: Barbaros
complications, such as misplacement of nephrostomy catheter into
Başeskioğlu.
the renal vein, inferior vena cava (6), and right atrium (7) have been
reported. In our case report, unity/integrity of the catheter was Conflict of Interest: No conflict of interest was declared by the authors.
destroyed and the distal end remained in the pararenal region. This Financial Disclosure: The authors declared that this study has received
kind of complication has not been previously reported and separated no financial support.
distal end was considered as a foreign body. Foreign bodies, such as
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