Retro-aortic left renal vein with left suprarenal vein draining into inferior vena cava

Introduction Variant patterns of arteries and veins are seen more frequently in abdomen than in any other part of the body. A knowledge of different types of variations depicted by renal and suprarenal veins is extremely important in exploration and treatment of renal trauma, renal transplantation, renovascular aneurysm and conservative or radical renal surgery [1–3]. The different patterns of renal vasculature are well described by Gillot [4], and Bergman et al. [5] . These may be in the form of double right or left renal veins, retro-aortic left renal vein, left suprarenal vein draining into the inferior vena cava (IVC) directly, renal collar, tortuosity of different vessels and so on. One such case with variant pattern of venous drainage of left kidney and suprarenal gland was encountered in our department which is being reported here.