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Prenatal diagnoses in unilateral empty renal fossa.
Author(s) -
Jeanty P,
Romero R,
Kepple D,
Stoney D,
Coggins T,
Fleischer A C
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
journal of ultrasound in medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.574
H-Index - 91
eISSN - 1550-9613
pISSN - 0278-4297
DOI - 10.7863/jum.1990.9.11.651
Subject(s) - medicine , ectopic kidney , fossa , in utero , renal agenesis , kidney , agenesis , fetus , pregnancy , surgery , obstetrics , biology , genetics
Six cases of unilateral empty renal fossa diagnosed by obstetric sonography are described. The anomalies reported (ectopic kidney, cross‐fused ectopic kidney, and unilateral renal agenesis) have not yet been described in the prenatal literature, to our knowledge, in fetuses that are otherwise normal. The study also demonstrates that, in spite of their nonvital in utero role, single kidneys may show compensatory hypertrophy.