INTRODUCTION Horseshoe kidney is a rare congenital malformation that is found in approximately 0.25% of the general population and usually remains asymptomatic. CASE PRESENTATION We report a successful transureteropyelostomy after heminephrectomy of the non-functional right moiety in a 25-year-old man with horseshoe kidney who had a combined 50% functional loss and hydronephrosis due to multi...

Primary carcinoid tumor of the kidney is a very rare entity (< 1%). About 90 cases have been reported in the literature. Carcinoid tumors appear over-represented in horseshoe kidneys compared with normal renal anatomy. Herein, we reported a 33-year-old male with primary renal carcinoid tumor arising from a horseshoe kidney. The tumor showed nests and trabeculea of uniformly polygonal cells sepa...

A 38-year-old man with known autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD) was electively admitted to our institution for open bilateral nephrectomies. A routine computed tomography scan had demonstrated a cyst at the upper pole of the left kidney with changes suspicious of malignancy and para-aortic adenopathy. His serum creatinine level was 510 mmol/L and the estimated glomerular filtr...

We herein report a case of 20-year-old man who underwent a contrast-enhanced computerized tomography of the pelvis for a workup of complicated urinary tract infection, which showed presence of classical horseshoe kidney and incidental left-sided infrarenal inferior vena cava (IVC). The left IVC joined the left renal vein and crossed anterior to the aorta, uniting with the right renal vein to fo...

A 21-year-old woman with a 4 cm enhancing cystic renal mass in the left moiety of a horseshoe kidney was treated through a retroperitoneal laparoscopic approach. The tumor was excised completely with cold scissors, and renal parenchyma suturing with a surgical bolster was done with Vicryl 2-0 sutures. Choosing the proper approach according to the location of the lesion and the surgeon's experie...

The congenital anomalies of kidney are important as they may cause renal failure in middle age group. Horseshoe kidney is the most common fusion anomaly. It has been said to occur in every 400 births and is seen in approximately 1 out of 300 pyelographies. A horseshoe kidney was observed in a thirty-two year old male in the archives of the Department of Anatomy, PGIMER, Chandigarh. The kidney w...

Horseshoe kidney is a congenital defect of the urinary tract that occurs in 0.25% of the general population. The indications for division of the isthmus of horseshoe kidney are controversial, and if done, it is during the concomitant removal of additional defects accompanying horseshoe kidney. The aim of this study was to evaluate the results of isthmusectomy of horseshoe kidney using laparosco...

INTRODUCTION We previously reported on the effectiveness of ureteroscopy-assisted retrograde nephrostomy during percutaneous nephrolithotomy and report two cases of lower calyx calculi in horseshoe kidney that were successfully treated with ureteroscopy-assisted retrograde nephrostomy. During the ureteroscopy-assisted retrograde nephrostomy procedure, a ureteroscope is advanced in the desired c...

OBJECTIVES This case report presents our experience regarding a horseshoe kidney from live donor to be used as a renal transplant. MATERIALS AND METHODS The recipient was a 48-year-old man with chronic renal failure owing to hypertension who had been on hemodialysis for 2 years. The donor was his 43-year-old sister who had an uncomplicated horseshoe kidney with negative results on a urinalysi...