intrathoracic kidney: a ct-scanning view

INTRATHORACIC KIDNEY: A CT-SCANNING VIEW

We report a patient who was admitted to the department of medicine with palpitation, dyspnea and left flank pain, Chest X-ray revealed a mass in the left lung. The lesion was evaluated as a pulmonary tumor, with a high suspicion of malignancy. Intravenous urography, sonography, and CTscanning revealed a thoracic kidney at the location previously thought to be a lung mass. This is the firs...

Congenital intrathoracic kidney.

Silent Tachypnoea in a Neonate: A Rare Presentation of Right Side Bochdalek Hernia with Intrathoracic Kidney

Congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH) is a rare condition. The reported incidence of intrathoracic renal ectopia due to CDH is also rare. A right-sided thoracic kidney is much less common due to the location of the liver. Isolated intrathoracic kidney is usually asymptomatic and diagnosed incidentally on chest imaging. The authors report on a 21days old female infant with late-presenting right ...

Intrathoracic Kidney in a Premature Infant.

Though ectopia of the kidney is a common anomaly (Campbell, 1951) displacement is usually downwards towards the pelvis, or medially. Upward displacement into the thoracic cavity is a much rarer finding. Ashley and Mostofi (1960), in a review of some quarter of a million necropsies, did not find a single case of thoracic kidney. The present report is of interest because of the diagnosis of this ...

Intrathoracic Airway Tree Segmentation from CT Images Using a Fuzzy Connectivity Method

Introduction: Virtual bronchoscopy is a reliable and efficient diagnostic method for primary symptoms of lung cancer. The segmentation of airways from CT images is a critical step for numerous virtual bronchoscopy applications. Materials and Methods: To overcome the limitations of the fuzzy connectedness method, the proposed technique, called fuzzy connectivity - fuzzy C-mean (FC-FCM), utilized...

CT features of intrathoracic gossypiboma (textiloma).

Here, we present chest radiography and computed tomography (CT) findings for three cases of mediastinal and pleural gossypiboma. Radiological manifestations varied according to the locations and chronicities of the gauze sponges and the types of reactions that they caused. CT analysis readily diagnosed gossypibomas in the early postoperative period by showing well-defined mediastinal- or pleura...