Percutaneous Management of a Nephrocutaneous Fistula Due to a Pyelocaliceal Diverticular Calculus

Haney, Thomas P.
Bihrle, Richard
Kopecky, Kenyon K.

From the Departments of Urology and Radiology, Indiana University Medical Center, Indianapolis, Indiana

Accepted April 24, 1992.

Journal of Urology 148(3):p 1105-1107, September 1992. | DOI: 10.1016/S0022-5347(17)36832-5

ABSTRACT

Nephrocutaneous fistulas arising from stone-containing pyelocaliceal diverticula are rare. We describe 2 patients who were treated by open drainage for perirenal abscesses. Subsequently, both patients presented with a nephrocutaneous fistula from a stone-containing pyelocaliceal diverticulum. These patients were successfully treated by percutaneous nephrostolithotomy with fulguration of the diverticula.