Single Pelvic Kidney

Supernumerary kidney with pelvic communication and a single ureter

An Ectopic Pelvic Kidney

BACKGROUND If a kidney does not ascend as it should in normal fetal development, it remains in the pelvic area and is called a pelvic kidney. Often a person with a pelvic kidney will go through his/her whole life unaware of this condition, unless it is discovered during neonatal kidney ultrasound screening or if complications arise later in life due to this or a completely different reason and ...

Ectopic Pelvic Kidney with Giant Hydronephrosis

Pelvic ectopic kidney associated with giant hydronephrosis is rare. It may be responsible for an extrinsic compression of adjacent structures. The authors report a case of giant hydronephrosis on a left pelvic ectopic kidney caused by obstructive lithiasis in a patient of 25 years. First ultrasound guided percutaneous nephrostomy allowed urinary drainage. Definitive treatment consisted in nephr...

Solitary pelvic kidney: an incidental case.

We report a case of solitary pelvic kidney. This uncommon condition was detected incidentally and diagnosed with intravenous pyelography (IVP), computed tomography (CT), and retrograde pyelography (RP).

Renal cell carcinoma in presacral pelvic kidney.

Renal pelvic ectopia has been estimated to occur in 1 of 2100 to 3000 autopsies. Renal cell carcinoma (RCC) is a very rare phenomenon in an ectopic kidney. According to our review of literature, there are only seven reports of RCC occurrence in pelvic kidneys. We describe a patient with RCC of presacral ectopic kidney who underwent radical nephrectomy at our medical center.