Imaging of Crossed Un-fused Renal Ectopia- A Rare Congenital Renal Anomaly.

Sanjivanee Ingole; Anish.N; Dillibabu Ethiraj; M.Prabhakaran.

Volume : VIII, Issue : IX, September - 2019

Imaging of Crossed Un-fused Renal Ectopia- A Rare Congenital Renal Anomaly.

Sanjivanee Ingole, Anish. N, Dillibabu Ethiraj, M. Prabhakaran.

Abstract :

The anomaly of crossed renal ectopia is rare, in this, one of the kidneys crosses the midline and lies on opposite side. Ninety percentage of the crossed renal ectopia are fused while only 10% are un–fused which accounts for 1: 75000. The ureter of the ectopic kidney is short and thus more prone to infection and nephrolithiasis. Since the crossed kidney is placed superficially, it is more prone to blunt injury. Most of the renal anomalies are found incidentally during radiological investigations. This is a case of a 56 year old male with incidental finding of left crossed unfused kidney.