Crossed Fused Renal Ectopia Multidetector Computed Tomography Study.
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2014-04
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Crossed renal ectopia is one of the rarest congenital malformations where a kidney is located on the side
opposite to the side of its ureteral insertion into the urinary bladder and is generally fused with the normally
located ipsilateral mate. Generally this anomaly remains as a silent clinical entity and is incidentally detected
during evaluation for other conditions. We report here three such cases of crossed fused renal ectopia detected
by multidetector row contrast enhanced computed tomography. Crossed fused renal ectopia of inferior
type was observed in a male on the right side with the ureter of the ectopic left kidney crossing the midline. In
two female patients, L-shaped or tandem kidney was noted, one on the right and another on the left side. Over
all in two cases the left kidney was ectopic and in one the right kidney. No renal pathologies like urinary tract
infection, nephrolithiasis or hematuria were found in our patients.
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Crossed fused renal ectopia, Tandem kidney, L-shaped kidney, Renal ectopia, Multidetector computed tomography, Renal fusion anomaly
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Sharma V, Babu C S Ramesh , Gupta O P. Crossed Fused Renal Ectopia Multidetector Computed Tomography Study. International Journal of Anatomy and Research. 2014 Apr-Jun; 2(2): 305-309.