When the Bullet Finds the Only Kidney: A rare happening of a stray bullet embedded in solitary functioning kidney

A Case Report

Abstract

Genitourinary trauma as a result of penetrating injury by gunshot wound occurs in about ten per cent. A bullet left in a solitary functioning kidney is extraordinarily rare. We report the case of a young patient who suffered a gunshot injury with that very rare situation--a bullet remaining in his only operational kidney for years and inflected calculus which had grown over it. After successful endoscopic percutaneous lithotripsy, the bullet was retrieved from the patient's urinary bladder.

Key Words: PCNL, Renal Stone, Fire-arm injury