Nephrocutaneous fistula is a distressing clinical condition. The fistula can be very difficult to treat and has a high chance of recurrence. The standard treatment of a recurrent fistula is nephrectomy along with the excision of the fistula. We present a case with recurrent nephrocutaneous fistula along with a hypofunctional contralateral kidney. This was a difficult clinical scenario as any compromise of the affected kidney could have resulted in renal failure. The patient was treated with a left upper polar partial nephrectomy and excision of the fistulous tract.
Tarun Jindal, Satyadip Mukherjee, Soumendra Nath Mandal, Dilip Karmakar
KEYWORDS: Fistula, kidney, cutaneous
CORRESPONDENCE: Tarun Jindal, MS, Calcutta National Medical College, Kolkata, West Bengal, India ( ).
CITATION: UroToday Int J. 2012 June;5(3):art 21.
doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.3834/uij.1944-5784.2012.06.08
