Tzu Chi Medical Journal
Volume 20, Issue 4 , Pages 314-317, December 2008

The Cephalad Malposition of a Kidney as a Thoracic Abnormality on Tc-99m MDP Bone Scintigraphy

  • Hung-Jen Hsieh

      Affiliations

    • Department of Nuclear Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
    • Department of Nuclear Medicine, Buddhist Tzu Chi General Hospital, Hualien, Taiwan
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Department of Nuclear Medicine, Buddhist Tzu Chi General Hospital, 707, Section 3, Chung-Yang Road, Hualien, Taiwan
    • ,
  • Kun-Han Lue

      Affiliations

    • Department of Nuclear Medicine, Buddhist Tzu Chi General Hospital, Hualien, Taiwan

Received 29 February 2008; received in revised form 20 March 2008; accepted 26 March 2008.

Abstract 

Thoracic location of an aberrant kidney is the least encountered renal malposition. We present a 62-year-old female patient with ovarian malignant mixed epithelial tumor complicated with massive ascites and right hemidiaphragmatic eventration. The cephalad malpositioned right kidney was found incidentally as an intrathoracic mass on Tc-99m MDP bone scintigraphy.

Keywords:  Diaphragmatic eventration , Ovarian tumors , Renal malposition , Tc-99m MDP bone scintigraphy

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PII: S1016-3190(08)60057-9

doi:10.1016/S1016-3190(08)60057-9

Tzu Chi Medical Journal
Volume 20, Issue 4 , Pages 314-317, December 2008

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