THORACIC KIDNEY
Teruo Kadowaki, Takashi Kurita, Noboru Okuda, Hiroshi Sakaguchi, Tetsu Bekku, Masanori Iguchi
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1976 Volume 67 Issue 7 Pages 558-564
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1976 Volume 67 Issue 7 Pages 558-564
Thoracic kidney is extremely rare with only 95 cases reported in the literature. Recently we experienced a case of right thoracic kidney with renal calculi and various congenital anomalies, such as pulmonary sequestration, stenotic right pulmonary artery, aplastic right lower lobe, eventration of the diaphragm, and anomalous right coronary artery. Right nephrolithotomy, nephropexy, and lobectomy were performed successfully. This unusual case is described with a review of the literature.
