r 'HE congenital cardiac defect known as Ebstein's anomaly has been recognized as a pathologic entity for 90 years.1 The first 80 years of this period constituted a relatively dormant era characterized by sporadic descriptions of the lesion at postmortem examination and by intimation that clinical recognition of this anomaly was not possible.2 Knowledge regarding Ebstein's anomaly has accumulat...

A 32-year-old man was examined for primary infertility. Ultrasound and computed tomography (CT) abdomen scans showed the presence of polycystic horse shoe kidney (Figure 1). CT abdomen revealed cysts in liver and seminal vesicles (Figure 2). There were bilateral ureteric calculi. There were no cysts in the pancreas or spleen. His serum creatinine level was 0.9 mg/dL (79.6 mmol/L). The patient h...

OBJECTIVE We report a clinical case of renal carcinoma in horseshoe kidney and some anatomical particularities during surgery. METHODS We describe the case of a 54 year old man who presented pain and prostatism. A renal tumor in horseshoe kidney was found in the diagnostic tests. RESULTS We performed surgical treatment saving the left kidney . CONCLUSIONS Horseshoe kidney is the most freq...

Pelvic midline cystic mass associated with renal malformation represents typical imaging features of a cloacal anomaly. We report a case of persistent cloaca that was diagnosed antenatally with fetal ultrasonography and MRI.

Caudal regression syndrome is a pathology caused by anomaly of spinal trunk ‘ending’, and encompasses a wide range of anomalies of the hind end of the trunk, including partial agenesis of the thoracolumbosacral spine, imperforate anus, malformed genitalia, bilateral renal dysplasia or aplasia, pulmonary hypoplasia, and in the most severe deformities, extreme external rotation and fusion of the ...

Crossed renal ectopia is a condition in which a kidney is located on the side opposite of its ureteral insertion. Ninety percent of crossed ectopic kidneys are fused to their ipsilateral uncrossed renal unit. Crossed renal ectopia without fusion is rare, with only 62 patients reported in the literature to date. These kidneys may suffer iatrogenic injury during an unrelated surgical intervention...

The horseshoe kidney is a congenital fusion anomaly of the kidneys with an incidence of 0.25% in the general population. We present an anatomical and histological study of a horseshoe kidney with abnormal vascular supply found during a routine dissection at a formalin-fixed male human body at the School of Medicine of the University of Caxias do Sul. This horseshoe kidney was joined at the lowe...

Bilateral supernumerary kidney is a very rare urogenital anomaly, with four cases reported in the literature thus far. To the best of our knowledge, bilateral supernumerary kidney in conjunction with horseshoe fusion anomaly is not reported till date. Herein, we report a 63-year-old male patient with persistent lower abdominal pain. Complete radiological evaluation including ultrasound, compute...

BACKGROUND Internal carotid artery agenesis is a rare anomaly that can be clinically asymptomatic. Klippel-Feil syndrome is a skeletal malformation characterized by vertebral fusion. Presence of postaxial polydactyly is suggestive of an underlying syndrome. CASE REPORT We report a rare case of a 44-year-old patient with non-specific symptoms and an association between these three rare abnorma...