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AN INTRARENAL FOREIGN BODY
Author(s) -
Chowdhury S. D.,
Higgins P. M.
Publication year - 1972
Publication title -
british journal of urology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.773
H-Index - 148
eISSN - 1464-410X
pISSN - 0007-1331
DOI - 10.1111/j.1464-410x.1972.tb10054.x
Subject(s) - foreign body , ureter , nephrectomy , kidney , peristalsis , medicine , anatomy , surgery
SUMMARY A case of intrarenal foreign body in a 7‐year‐old girl, treated by removal of the foreign body and upper pole partial nephrectomy, is described. The foreign body probably reached the kidney by retrograde migration having been introduced into the bladder, inadvertently engaging the right ureteric orifice and thereafter ascending the ureter to the kidney. It is postulated that the hairgrip was forced up the right ureter to the kidney during peristaltic contractions, the projecting ends of the hairgrip preventing downward movement.