A Female with Right-Sided Thoracic Kidney with Bochdalek Hernia: A Case Report

The thoracic kidney is the rarest form of an ectopic kidney that usually present on the left thorax and twice more common in males. No case has been reported from Nepal and very few cases are reported worldwide. We report a 24 years-old female with right thoracic kidney with Bochdalek hernia diagnos...

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Autores principales: Daha, Sunil Kumar, Karn, Anish, Shrestha, Nikhil, Shrestha, Neharika, Paudyal, Sanjaya, Giri, Niraj
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Journal of the Nepal Medical Association 2019
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7580416/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32335664
http://dx.doi.org/10.31729/jnma.4747
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Sumario:The thoracic kidney is the rarest form of an ectopic kidney that usually present on the left thorax and twice more common in males. No case has been reported from Nepal and very few cases are reported worldwide. We report a 24 years-old female with right thoracic kidney with Bochdalek hernia diagnosed incidentally. We have included clinico-radiological and surgical findings of the case with a review of the literature.

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