OBJECTIVES Crossed fused renal ectopia is a rare congenital anomaly. We report the case of a 3 year old boy with diagnosis of right crossed fused renal ectopia, history of recurrent urinary tract infection and previous failure of surgical treatment. METHODS Three year old boy with diagnosis of right crossed fused renal ectopia of the inferior moiety underwent a laparoscopic heminephrectomy of...

BACKGROUND Retroaortic left renal vein, is a rare congenital anomaly. CASE CHARACTERISTICS A 14-day-old male neonate with retrocrortic left renal vein with posterior nutcracker phenomenon resulting in renal congestion. OBSERVATION He developed septicemia, renal abscess and thrombosis of abdominal aorta. OUTCOME Improvement on antibiotics and heparin. MESSAGE Retroaortic left renal vein ...

We present robust anomaly detection in multi-dimensional data. We describe information fusion across multiple levels in a layered architecture to ensure accurate and reliable detection of anomalies from heterogeneous data. We consider the problem of detecting anomalous entities (e.g., people) from observation data (e.g., activities) gathered from multiple contexts or information sources over ti...

In this paper, a generalized data fusion and network anomaly detection methodology is introduced and described. The proposed data fusion approach provides an integrated way of taking into consideration and combining effectively correlated performance metrics, for improving the anomaly detection capabilities and the corresponding network operational effectiveness. This is achieved by designing a...

Abstract This case report details a rare of squamous cell carcinoma present in the renal pelvis fused pelvic kidney, congenital complete fusion anomaly. A 52-year-old man with no previous urological history presented intermittent haematuria and weight loss. He was found to have large complex mass (14.3 cm×4.5 cm×15.5 cm) right moiety kidney on CT subsequently underwent an open hemi-nephrectomy....

Lumbar disc herniation is characterized with low back and leg pain resulting from the degenerated lumbar disc compressing the spinal nerve root. The etiology of degenerative spine is related to age, smoking, microtrauma, obesity, disorders of familial collagen structure, occupational and sports-related physical activity. However, disc herniations induced by congenital lumbar vertebral anomalies...

purpose: to report three cases of alport syndrome in one  family with anterior lenticonus and retinal flecks. patients and findings: three members of one family with consanguineous parents are presented who had renal and ocular involvement. they had anterior lenticonus and a beaten bronze appearance in the macula. reduced visual acuity and photophobia were the chief complaints of these patients...

conclusions the patient underwent surgery applying a midline incision. the left kidney showed a lump pattern embedded in lower pole of the right kidney. left sided nephrectomy was performed while temporary right renal artery was clamped temporarily. histopathological evaluation revealed clear cell carcinoma with severe nuclear atypia (fuhrman grade 4/4). however, local recurrence was not detect...