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A Hypertensive Patient With Polycystic Horseshoe Kidney

  • Alper Kirkpantur
  • , Bulent Altun
  • , Mahmut Ilker Yilmaz
  • , Mujdat Yenicesu

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Abstract

Adult polycystic kidney disease is transmitted in autosomal dominant pattern with a reported incidence of 1 in 1000 to 1 in 5000 cases. Horseshoe kidney is a renal fusion anomaly with an incidence of 1 in 400 to 1 in 1800 live births. Polycystic horseshoe kidney is a rare occurrence of 1 in 134,000 to 1 in 8,000,000. We here present a patient who was admitted with left-sided flank pain, hypertension and polycystic horseshoe kidney.
Original languageTurkish
Pages (from-to)87-89
Number of pages3
JournalTurkish Nephrology, Dialysis and Transplantation Journal
Volume18
Issue number2
Publication statusPublished - 2009

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