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CT abdomen axial section showing shattered left kidney.
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He subsequently had a trauma CT chest/abdomen/pelvis which revealed a grade 5 left kidney injury (shattered kidney) with active arterial extravasation and associated large (10 cm x 8 cm x 17 cm) retroperitoneal hematoma as seen in Fig. 1.
Angiogram showing devascularization of the left kidney superior pole.
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This revealed devascularization of the superior pole of the left kidney (Fig. 2).
Operative specimen of the shattered left kidney post nephrectomy.
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The kidney was shattered into 3 pieces separated from the renal pelvis (Fig. 3).