Korean J Urol.  1994 Apr;35(4):427-430.

A case of Spontaneous Bilateral Subcapsular Hematoma of the Kidney

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  • 1Department of Urology, Kosin Medicine College, Pusan, Korea.

Abstract

Spontaneous subcapsular hematoma of the kidney is an uncommon, but there are only few reports on bilateral subcapsular hematoma associated with non-traumatic origin in the world. Several commonest causes for this phenomenon have been described : including disease of the kidney , nephritis, tumor, hydronephrosis, infection, tuberculosis. lithiasis and cystic disease, blood vessel disease ; arteriosclerosis, aneurysm, periarteritis nodosa and renal infarcts, blood dyscrasia. No definite causative factor was found in this case : that a 49-year-old woman was done the decortication of left kidney and hematoma remove, due to no specific abnormality in preoperative coagulation test, 24hr urine AFB stain, immunoserologic test and renal angiography.

Keyword

Kidney; Subcapsular hematoma

MeSH Terms

Aneurysm
Angiography
Arteriosclerosis
Female
Hematologic Diseases
Hematoma*
Humans
Hydronephrosis
Kidney*
Lithiasis
Middle Aged
Nephritis
Polyarteritis Nodosa
Tuberculosis
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