Thoracic Kidney: Extremely Rare State of Aberrant Kidney

Mahdi Khoshchehreh, Omalbanin Paknejad, Mehrdad Bakhshayesh-Karam, and Marzieh Pazoki

Pediatric Respiratory Diseases Research Centre, NRITLD, Masih Daneshvari Hospital, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

The thorax is the rarest place among all forms of renal ectopia. We report a rare case of an unacquired thoracic kidney. Only about 200 cases of the thoracic kidney have ever been reported in medical literature worldwide. In this paper we present the rarest form of nontraumatic nonhernia associated, truly ectopic thoracic kidney.The differential diagnosis and management options and classification of this rare form of aberrant kidney are discussed.

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Hindawi Publishing Corporation. Volume 2015, Article ID 672628, 3 pages