Nail Gun Penetrating Renal Injury: A Case Report

The kidney is the genitourinary organ most affected by trauma, although the retroperitoneal location provides some protection. Renal injuries are classified according to the mechanism of trauma. Most of the penetrating renal injury cases in the literature are due to knife stabbing or handguns. We pr...

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Autores principales: Alothman, Ali S, Alhajress, Ghassan I, Elshaer, Alaa, Bin Hamri, Saeed
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
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Urology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8967116/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35386155
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.22697
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author Alothman, Ali S
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description The kidney is the genitourinary organ most affected by trauma, although the retroperitoneal location provides some protection. Renal injuries are classified according to the mechanism of trauma. Most of the penetrating renal injury cases in the literature are due to knife stabbing or handguns. We present an interesting case of a 22-year-old male with a penetrating renal injury caused by an electric nail gun. There was no report of a similar case in the literature.
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spelling pubmed-89671162022-04-05 Nail Gun Penetrating Renal Injury: A Case Report Alothman, Ali S Alhajress, Ghassan I Elshaer, Alaa Bin Hamri, Saeed Cureus Urology The kidney is the genitourinary organ most affected by trauma, although the retroperitoneal location provides some protection. Renal injuries are classified according to the mechanism of trauma. Most of the penetrating renal injury cases in the literature are due to knife stabbing or handguns. We present an interesting case of a 22-year-old male with a penetrating renal injury caused by an electric nail gun. There was no report of a similar case in the literature. Cureus 2022-02-28 /pmc/articles/PMC8967116/ /pubmed/35386155 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.22697 Text en Copyright © 2022, Alothman et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Alothman, Ali S
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title_full Nail Gun Penetrating Renal Injury: A Case Report
title_fullStr Nail Gun Penetrating Renal Injury: A Case Report
title_full_unstemmed Nail Gun Penetrating Renal Injury: A Case Report
title_short Nail Gun Penetrating Renal Injury: A Case Report
title_sort nail gun penetrating renal injury: a case report
topic Urology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8967116/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35386155
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.22697
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