Pancake kidney with single draining ureter: a rare developmental anomaly

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 had resolution of his pain at 3-month follow-up.

Developmental Anomalies of Kidney and Ureter

Supernumerary kidney with pelvic communication and a single ureter

Pancake kidney: An unusual type of renal fusion anomaly found in 99mTc-DMSA renal scintigraphy

A 2.5-year-old boy with a history of the previous incidental finding of an ectopic kidney in ultrasonography was referred to our nuclear medicine center for 99mTc-DMSA renal scintigraphy. The scan showed an unusual type of ectopic fused kidneys on the right side of the lower abdomen. In this anomaly, kidneys were fused completely across the medial portion of both upper and lower pole...

A Case of Congenital Single Kidney with Dilated Ureter

A Hindu male, aged 17 years, came to us for an investigation regarding his albuminuria. Past history.?Four years ago the patient had an acute attack of pain with redness and inflammation of the metatarso-phalangeal articulation of the big toe of the left foot; this was diagnosed as gout. He had two more similar attacks which affected the metatarso-phalangeal articulations of both the feet. Duri...