Supernumerary kidney presenting as pyonephrosis

Renal anomalies constitute a majority of all congenital anomalies of urinary tract. Many anomalies warrant surgical intervention and some may not. Supernumerary kidney is an extremely rare anomaly; its association with horseshoe kidney is rare. A bizarre presentation in this patient-made preoperativ...

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Autores principales: Ramasamy, Senthilnathan, Paramasivam, Jeyakumar, Janardhanam, Krishnamohan
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2009
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2779966/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19881137
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-1591.56175
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author Ramasamy, Senthilnathan
Paramasivam, Jeyakumar
Janardhanam, Krishnamohan
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Paramasivam, Jeyakumar
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description Renal anomalies constitute a majority of all congenital anomalies of urinary tract. Many anomalies warrant surgical intervention and some may not. Supernumerary kidney is an extremely rare anomaly; its association with horseshoe kidney is rare. A bizarre presentation in this patient-made preoperative diagnosis impossible. We report this extremely rare anomaly and its recognition and subsequent management.
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spelling pubmed-27799662009-11-27 Supernumerary kidney presenting as pyonephrosis Ramasamy, Senthilnathan Paramasivam, Jeyakumar Janardhanam, Krishnamohan Indian J Urol Case Report Renal anomalies constitute a majority of all congenital anomalies of urinary tract. Many anomalies warrant surgical intervention and some may not. Supernumerary kidney is an extremely rare anomaly; its association with horseshoe kidney is rare. A bizarre presentation in this patient-made preoperative diagnosis impossible. We report this extremely rare anomaly and its recognition and subsequent management. Medknow Publications 2009 /pmc/articles/PMC2779966/ /pubmed/19881137 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-1591.56175 Text en © Indian Journal of Urology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Paramasivam, Jeyakumar
Janardhanam, Krishnamohan
Supernumerary kidney presenting as pyonephrosis
title Supernumerary kidney presenting as pyonephrosis
title_full Supernumerary kidney presenting as pyonephrosis
title_fullStr Supernumerary kidney presenting as pyonephrosis
title_full_unstemmed Supernumerary kidney presenting as pyonephrosis
title_short Supernumerary kidney presenting as pyonephrosis
title_sort supernumerary kidney presenting as pyonephrosis
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2779966/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19881137
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-1591.56175
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