Case Reports
Vol. 3 No. 2 (2022)
Incidental finding of a rare anomaly: Bilateral maternal pelvic kidneys
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Received: 16 June 2022
Accepted: 4 July 2022
Accepted: 4 July 2022
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Pelvic kidney occurs when kidney fails to migrate above the pelvic brim during embryologic development. Bilateral pelvic kidneys are rare. We present a 31-year-old multigravida [G4 P3+0] female, who presented for routine early obstetric scan which revealed non-fused kidneys located posterio-lateral to the fundus of the gravid uterus and anterior to the sacrum. Pelvic kidneys are largely asymptomatic; and this was the case in our patient who had three previous uneventful pregnancies and vaginal deliveries without diagnosis of bilateral pelvic kidneys.
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Incidental finding of a rare anomaly: Bilateral maternal pelvic kidneys. (2022). Annals of Clinical and Biomedical Research, 3(2). https://doi.org/10.4081/acbr.2022.221