Left thoracic kidney: A rare finding at intravenous urography
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Left thoracic kidney: a rare finding at intravenous urography.
Thoracic kidney is a rare type of renal ectopia. Patients with thoracic kidneys are usually asymptomatic and the condition is usually discovered incidentally during radiological evaluation for other conditions or during thoracic surgery. An intravenous urography done for a thirty-eight year old man referred on account of a seemingly small right kidney on an abdominal ultrasound scan, showed a n...
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عنوان ژورنال: Ghana Medical Journal
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0855-0328
DOI: 10.4314/gmj.v44i1.68856