A horseshoe kidney with partial duplex systems

Received: 25-Oct-2010 Accepted Date: Jan 30, 2011; Published: 27-Mar-2011

Citation: IJAV. 2011; 4: 55–56.

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Abstract

During routine dissection, we identified a horseshoe kidney arrested inferior to the inferior mesenteric artery in a middle-aged male cadaver. On further dissection, the kidneys were fused inferiorly, both hila were wide and the kidneys had bilateral duplicated renal arteries and ureters. Horseshoe kidneys could be associated with bilateral duplex systems.