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Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation 2006 21(3):799-801; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfi301
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Case Report

Thoracic kidney and contralateral ureteral duplication—a case report and review of the literature

Chun-Fu Lai1, Wen-Chih Chiang2, Ju-Yeh Yang3, Horng-Chin Yan4, Shuei-Liong Lin2, Yung-Ming Chen2, Kwan-Dun Wu2 and Bor-Shen Hsieh2

1 Department of Internal Medicine, Far Eastern Memorial Hospital, Taipei, 2 Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital and National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, 3 Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Yun-Lin branch, Yunlin County and 4 Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, Department of Internal Medicine, Tri-Service General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Correspondence and offprint requests to: Dr Kwan-Dun Wu, Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital and National Taiwan University College of Medicine, No. 7, Chung-Shan South Rd, Taipei, Taiwan, 100. Email: kdw@ha.mc.ntu.edu.tw

Keywords: abnormalities; complications; thoracic kidney; ureteral duplication

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The thoracic location of an aberrant kidney is the least encountered, accounting for less than 5% of renal ectopy. It occurs more frequently in males and usually on the left side [1]. Most of the patients with thoracic kidneys are asymptomatic, in contrast to pelvic kidneys, and such kidneys always function normally. A patient with this anomaly is usually disclosed incidentally by routine radiological examination. On the other hand, ureteral duplication is the most common congenital anomaly of the urinary tract. We report an adult female with left thoracic kidney and . . . [Full Text of this Article]



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