Ureteral Injury During a Hip-Nailing Procedure

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URETERAL injury has been well reviewed in the literature. The vast majority of such injuries occur during operations on other structures, especially during gynecologic procedures.1-3Ureteral injury secondary to blunt or penetrating trauma to the pelvis or abdomen is very rarely the only site of injury.1,4 To our knowledge, injury to the ureter during a hip-nailing procedure has never been reported previously. Report of a Case A 25-year-old man with partial atrophy of his right lower extremity secondary to childhood poliomyelitis fell on the day of admission, Dec 18, 1974, fracturing the proximal head of his right femur. A Jewett hip nailing was carried out on the day after admission. During the procedure, it was thought that one of the standard guide wires was possibly passed into the pelvis. It was promptly removed. The procedure was continued without further incident. During the next 24 hours, the patient experienced

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