A 2.5-year-old boy with a history of the previous incidental finding of an ectopic kidney in ultrasonography was referred to our nuclear medicine center for 99mTc-DMSA renal scintigraphy. The scan showed an unusual type of ectopic fused kidneys on the right side of the lower abdomen. In this anomaly, kidneys were fused completely across the medial portion of both upper and lower pole...

A 61-year-old man presented to the Emergency Department with vomiting and progressively worsening abdominal pain. A computed tomography (CT) was performed. The diagnosis of patient was acute cholecystitis and the patient was referred to general surgery clinic. In addition CT scan showed bilateral ectopic kidneys with urinary bladder herniation (Figures 1 and 2). Both kidneys were fused at the m...

Renal fusion abnormalities are rare. Even more rare is pancake kidney. We present a case of a 28-year-old male with symptomatic obstruction of a non-functioning moiety of a pancake kidney. He underwent ureterectomy with a finding of only atretic renal parenchyma at exploration. He recovered well and had resolution of his pain at 3-month follow-up.

The cake or lump kidney is a rare form of fusion. The pancake kidney is always found in the pelvic cavity, in the greater or lesser pelvis. However, we report a case of pancake kidney which was found inside abdominal cavity while investigating 32-year-old male for lower limb pain. CT scan with IV contrast reveals 'fused mass situated in the right side of abdominal cavity with course uncrossed u...

Radiol Bras. 2016 Mar/Abr;49(2):126–132 128 http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/0100-3984.2015.0063 found in males, at a ratio of 2–3:1, and can be diagnosed at any age. The pancake kidney malformation results from complete medial fusion of the metanephric blastema at an early stage of embryonic development and is characterized by a single, flat, nonreniform mass, in a medial position within the pelvic c...