50 Year old male with history of renal colic presenting to the emergency room with left colic pain.
On ultrasound horseshoe kidneys were visualized without hydronephrosis or stones. CT scan: horseshoe kidney with inferior isthmus, no signs of nephrolithiasis or urolithiasis. There are multiple associated vascular anomalies (there are at least five right renal arteries and two left, double venous return is seen in both hemi-kidneys).
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Sierra Labarta CR, De Pablo Cardenas A, Cuesta Alcala JA, Mellado Santos JM, Sanchez Zalabrado D. Are you the author?
Servicio de Urologia, Hospital Reina Sofia, Tudela, Navarra, Spain.
Reference: Arch Esp Urol. 2013 Oct;66(8):827.
PubMed Abstract
PMID: 24136489
Article in English, Spanish.
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