Possible Renal Complications of Acupuncture

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This article is only available in the PDF format. Download the PDF to view the article, as well as its associated figures and tables. To the Editor.— The recent surge of interest in acupuncture has led to a review of a case of renal lithiasis seen by us in 1967. The patient was a 50-year-old male Chinese. During the course of evaluation for hypertension, intravenous urography showed a calculus in the left renal pelvis encasing a metallic foreign body. Further history and examination indicated that the patient had been born in what is now the People's Republic of China, and lived there until the age of 18 years. While he cannot specifically recall having undergone acupuncture, he does know that acupuncture was practiced on family members about that time. The patient had a stellate, 2-cm scar on the left flank area in the anterior axillary line related to "an infection" in childhood. The general examination was otherwise unremarkable. A left nephrectomy was done in January 1967. In the renal pelvis, staghorn calculus, 3.5 ×

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