...Sinan Avci; Volkan Caglayan; Metin Kilic; Sedat Oner Introduction: We aimed to identify factors affecting percutaneous nephrolithotomy (PNL) outcomes among patients with horseshoe kidney (HSK) and assess the predictive accuracy of the Clinical Research Office of the Endourological Society (CROES...

...Han Chen; Gang Chen; Yang Pan; Yunxiao Zhu; Chaoyu Xiong; Hualin Chen; Ziyi Yang Introduction: No wound to the patients is the pursuit of surgeons. Extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy (SWL) and ureteroscopy (URS) are minimally invasive modalities for treating horseshoe kidney (HSK) stone <2 cm...

...Florin-Ioan Elec; Andreea Zaharie; Ionuţ-Lucian Vintilă; Liviu Ghervan Due to the progressive shortage of donors, kidneys with congenital anomalies are considered for transplantation. We report a successful transplantation of a split horseshoe kidney from a deceased donor by using the inferior...

...Kehua Jiang; Kun Tang; Hua Xu; Hongbo Chen; Zhiqiang Chen Objective: To assess the safety and efficacy of retroperitoneoscopy technique-assisted percutaneous nephrolithotomy (PCNL) used in the treatment of complexity horseshoe kidney (HSK) with renal stones. Methods: Between January 2012 and April...

...Johannes Linxweiler; Roushanak Shayesteh-Kheslat; Peter Fries; Günther Schneider; Martin Janssen; Carsten H. Ohlmann; Michael Stöckle; Stefan Siemer; Matthias Saar The horseshoe kidney is one of the most common congenital disorders affecting the urogenital system. Following a fusion of the lower...

... trauma to the mesogastrium. A CT scan was performed, revealing a voluminous retroperitoneal hematoma with laceration of both inferior renal poles with regard to rupture of the isthmus of a horseshoe kidney. The patient presented anemization and increased pain, requiring selective embolization by means...

...Ennemond Payen; Denis Bretheau; Eric Lechevallier; Yvon Berland; Michel Olmer; Christian Coulange We report the case of a transplantation of a horseshoe kidney to 2 recipients after isthmic section of the kidney. A review of the literature since 1975 mentions only 14 cases of transplantation...

...Prem Nath Dogra; Narendra A. Jadeja We report a case of giant segmental hydronephrosis of the right moitey of a horseshoe kidney. The diagnosis was not established until exploration, despite thorough evaluation by all the available imaging techniques. © 1994 S. Karger AG, Basel 1994 Copyright...

...R. Meridies; K. Maar; U. Claussen The horseshoe kidney is a not so rare fusion anomaly of the urinary tract system. Clinical and genetic aspects of this phenomenon are shown in a case of familiar occurrence. Genetic consultation of the family must consider various inheritable possibilities...

...M. Tobias-Machado; M.F. Massulo-Aguiar; P.H. Forseto, Jr.; R.V. Juliano; E.R. Wroclawski A 64-year-old woman presented with recurrent gross hematuria and intermittent left-sided pain. A CT scan revealed an 8-cm mass in the left moiety of a horseshoe kidney. A laparoscopic transperitoneal approach...

...Domenico Viola; Theodore Anagnostou; Trevor J. Thompson; Gordon Smith; Sami A. Moussa; David A. Tolley Introduction: Horseshoe kidney is the commonest congenital renal fusion anomaly, and is often complicated by urolithiasis. We focus on our 16 years of experience with stone management in horseshoe...

...Luigi Motta; Giuseppe Candiano; Pietro Pepe; Paolo Panella; Antonio Galia; Francesco Aragona Renal neuroendocrine tumors (NET) are rare neoplasms of unknown histogenesis. To the best of our knowledge, 40 such cases have been described, 11 of which arising in horseshoe kidneys (HSK). We report...

...Chikashi Seto; Kohji Satoh; Hiroshi Morishita; Kazuto Komatsu; Mikio Namiki This report concerns a case of bilateral large calculi in a horseshoe kidney. Three sessions of percutaneous nephrolithotripsy for the calculi successfully disintegrated and removed the fragments without any complications...