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
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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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author Khoshchehreh, Mahdi
Paknejad, Omalbanin
Bakhshayesh-Karam, Mehrdad
Pazoki, Marzieh
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description 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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spelling pubmed-45377222015-08-23 Thoracic Kidney: Extremely Rare State of Aberrant Kidney Khoshchehreh, Mahdi Paknejad, Omalbanin Bakhshayesh-Karam, Mehrdad Pazoki, Marzieh Case Rep Urol Case Report 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. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015 2015-08-02 /pmc/articles/PMC4537722/ /pubmed/26301113 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/672628 Text en Copyright © 2015 Mahdi Khoshchehreh et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Case Report
Khoshchehreh, Mahdi
Paknejad, Omalbanin
Bakhshayesh-Karam, Mehrdad
Pazoki, Marzieh
Thoracic Kidney: Extremely Rare State of Aberrant Kidney
title Thoracic Kidney: Extremely Rare State of Aberrant Kidney
title_full Thoracic Kidney: Extremely Rare State of Aberrant Kidney
title_fullStr Thoracic Kidney: Extremely Rare State of Aberrant Kidney
title_full_unstemmed Thoracic Kidney: Extremely Rare State of Aberrant Kidney
title_short Thoracic Kidney: Extremely Rare State of Aberrant Kidney
title_sort thoracic kidney: extremely rare state of aberrant kidney
topic Case Report
url 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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