Thoracic Kidney: Extremely Rare State of Aberrant Kidney

The thorax is the rarest place among all forms of renal ectopia. We report a rare case of an unacquired thoracic kidney. Only about 200 cases of the thoracic kidney have ever been reported in medical literature worldwide. In this paper we present the rarest form of nontraumatic nonhernia associated,...

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Autores principales: Khoshchehreh, Mahdi, Paknejad, Omalbanin, Bakhshayesh-Karam, Mehrdad, Pazoki, Marzieh
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4537722/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26301113
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/672628
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Sumario:The thorax is the rarest place among all forms of renal ectopia. We report a rare case of an unacquired thoracic kidney. Only about 200 cases of the thoracic kidney have ever been reported in medical literature worldwide. In this paper we present the rarest form of nontraumatic nonhernia associated, truly ectopic thoracic kidney. The differential diagnosis and management options and classification of this rare form of aberrant kidney are discussed.

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