Pancake Kidney Detected on Renal Scintigraphy

Abstract

Pancake kidney is an extremely rare renal anomaly resulting from abnormal renal ascent and subsequent fusion. The authors describe a patient with pancake kidneys detected on a Tc-99m DTPA scan. The case reported depicts the scintigraphic findings in such a patient having a pancake kidney.

Prenatal Diagnosis, Multimodality Workup and Postnatal Follow Up of Fetal Pancake Kidneys: A Rare Case Report

“…Postnatal literature regarding Pancake Kidneys is quite scarce, and most of the published data are also case reports [3,[5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16]. Reviewing the literature, we did not encounter any case report from India.…”

Kidney, Urinary Bladder, and Ureter

“…Other methods include ultrasonography, intravenous pyelography, computerized tomography, and andrenal scintigraphy (Sharma et al 2006;Boyan et al 2007). CT also helps to identify metastatic disease.…”