Rare presentation of autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease in horseshoe kidney ultrasound evaluation: a case report

Horseshoe kidney is a renal fusion anomaly during embryogenesis and adult polycystic kidney disease is a hereditary disorder which is transmitted in autosomal dominant pattern. Polycystic and horseshoe kidney are two separate disease entities, only about 20 cases of polycystic kidney disease in hors...

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Autores principales: Nagendra, Vadlamudi, Phatak, Suresh Vasant, Singh, Rohan Kumar, Pandey, Shivesh Subodh, Gupta, Rishabh
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The African Field Epidemiology Network 2022
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9392012/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36034027
http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2022.42.116.31632
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Sumario:Horseshoe kidney is a renal fusion anomaly during embryogenesis and adult polycystic kidney disease is a hereditary disorder which is transmitted in autosomal dominant pattern. Polycystic and horseshoe kidney are two separate disease entities, only about 20 cases of polycystic kidney disease in horseshoe kidney disease have been described in the literature, with an incidence ranging from 1 in 134 000 to 1 in 8 000 000 live births. We are presenting ultrasound findings of a patient who was incidentally diagnosed with polycystic horseshoe kidney on routine screening.

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