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Rare case of thoracic kidney detected by renal scintigraphy
Intrathoracic kidney is a rare congenital abnormality with lowest frequency among all renal ectopias. Patients with thoracic kidneys are usually asymptomatic, and the condition is usually discovered incidentally during radiological evaluation for other conditions or during thoracic surgery. We repor...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4918489/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27385896 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-3919.181863 |
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author | Natarajan, Aravintho Agrawal, Archi Purandare, Nilendu Shah, Sneha Rangarajan, Venkatesh |
author_facet | Natarajan, Aravintho Agrawal, Archi Purandare, Nilendu Shah, Sneha Rangarajan, Venkatesh |
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description | Intrathoracic kidney is a rare congenital abnormality with lowest frequency among all renal ectopias. Patients with thoracic kidneys are usually asymptomatic, and the condition is usually discovered incidentally during radiological evaluation for other conditions or during thoracic surgery. We report a case of a 62-year-old male who was referred to our department for renal scintigraphy for a nonvisualized left kidney on ultrasonography report. Both Tc-99m dimercaptosuccinic acid and diethylenetriaminepentaacetic acid scans revealed a left thoracic kidney which was confirmed by CT scan of the thorax and abdomen. |
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spelling | pubmed-49184892016-07-07 Rare case of thoracic kidney detected by renal scintigraphy Natarajan, Aravintho Agrawal, Archi Purandare, Nilendu Shah, Sneha Rangarajan, Venkatesh Indian J Nucl Med Case Report Intrathoracic kidney is a rare congenital abnormality with lowest frequency among all renal ectopias. Patients with thoracic kidneys are usually asymptomatic, and the condition is usually discovered incidentally during radiological evaluation for other conditions or during thoracic surgery. We report a case of a 62-year-old male who was referred to our department for renal scintigraphy for a nonvisualized left kidney on ultrasonography report. Both Tc-99m dimercaptosuccinic acid and diethylenetriaminepentaacetic acid scans revealed a left thoracic kidney which was confirmed by CT scan of the thorax and abdomen. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2016 /pmc/articles/PMC4918489/ /pubmed/27385896 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-3919.181863 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Nuclear Medicine http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms. |
spellingShingle | Case Report Natarajan, Aravintho Agrawal, Archi Purandare, Nilendu Shah, Sneha Rangarajan, Venkatesh Rare case of thoracic kidney detected by renal scintigraphy |
title | Rare case of thoracic kidney detected by renal scintigraphy |
title_full | Rare case of thoracic kidney detected by renal scintigraphy |
title_fullStr | Rare case of thoracic kidney detected by renal scintigraphy |
title_full_unstemmed | Rare case of thoracic kidney detected by renal scintigraphy |
title_short | Rare case of thoracic kidney detected by renal scintigraphy |
title_sort | rare case of thoracic kidney detected by renal scintigraphy |
topic | Case Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4918489/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27385896 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-3919.181863 |
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