Pancake Kidney With Obstructed Moiety: A Rare Renal Fusion Anomaly

Renal fusion abnormalities are rare. Even more rare is pancake kidney. We present a case of a 28-year-old male with symptomatic obstruction of a non-functioning moiety of a pancake kidney. He underwent ureterectomy with a finding of only atretic renal parenchyma at exploration. He recovered well and...

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Autores principales: Slongo, Julio, Wiegand, Lucas R.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2017
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Functional Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5376259/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28373961
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eucr.2017.03.003
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description Renal fusion abnormalities are rare. Even more rare is pancake kidney. We present a case of a 28-year-old male with symptomatic obstruction of a non-functioning moiety of a pancake kidney. He underwent ureterectomy with a finding of only atretic renal parenchyma at exploration. He recovered well and had resolution of his pain at 3-month follow-up.
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spelling pubmed-53762592017-04-03 Pancake Kidney With Obstructed Moiety: A Rare Renal Fusion Anomaly Slongo, Julio Wiegand, Lucas R. Urol Case Rep Functional Medicine Renal fusion abnormalities are rare. Even more rare is pancake kidney. We present a case of a 28-year-old male with symptomatic obstruction of a non-functioning moiety of a pancake kidney. He underwent ureterectomy with a finding of only atretic renal parenchyma at exploration. He recovered well and had resolution of his pain at 3-month follow-up. Elsevier 2017-03-30 /pmc/articles/PMC5376259/ /pubmed/28373961 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eucr.2017.03.003 Text en © 2017 The Authors http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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Pancake Kidney With Obstructed Moiety: A Rare Renal Fusion Anomaly
title Pancake Kidney With Obstructed Moiety: A Rare Renal Fusion Anomaly
title_full Pancake Kidney With Obstructed Moiety: A Rare Renal Fusion Anomaly
title_fullStr Pancake Kidney With Obstructed Moiety: A Rare Renal Fusion Anomaly
title_full_unstemmed Pancake Kidney With Obstructed Moiety: A Rare Renal Fusion Anomaly
title_short Pancake Kidney With Obstructed Moiety: A Rare Renal Fusion Anomaly
title_sort pancake kidney with obstructed moiety: a rare renal fusion anomaly
topic Functional Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5376259/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28373961
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