Right Renal Vein (right + renal_vein)

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Renal cell carcinoma with a huge solitary metastasis to the contralateral adrenal gland: A case report

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF UROLOGY, Issue 12 2008
Takanobu Utsumi
Abstract Renal cell carcinoma (RCC) is capable of metastasizing to several organs. Synchronous isolated contralateral adrenal metastasis of the primary RCC is, however, very rare. Herein we report a case of RCC with a huge solitary metastasis to the contralateral adrenal gland that was surgically treated. We scheduled nephrectomy for the left primary RCC and adrenalectomy for the right adrenal tumor. However, at surgery we found a huge right adrenal tumor that had invaded the right kidney, right renal vein, and inferior vena cava. Therefore right nephrectomy was performed simultaneously with resection and reconstruction of the inferior vena cava. Pathological findings demonstrated that the left renal tumor and right adrenal tumor had the same histology. Although the patient required hemodialysis, he remains well at six months postoperatively. So far, there have been only two cases of a solitary contralateral metastatic adrenal tumor that was larger than the primary RCC, thus the present case is the third one. [source]


Intravenous extended liposarcoma arising from renal sinus

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF UROLOGY, Issue 8 2007
Mabumi Matsushita
Abstract: Liposarcoma arising from the renal sinus is rare and there have been no reports of intravenous extended liposarcoma of the renal sinus thus far. We report a case of liposarcoma of the renal sinus that extended into the renal venous lumen. A 58-year-old woman was referred to our hospital for an intravascular fatty tumor of the right renal vein incidentally discovered by an abdominal screening ultrasonogram. Computer tomography revealed a fatty tumor extending from the right kidney to the right renal vein with no evidence of metastatic lesions. Total right nephrectomy and extirpation of the intravascular tumor of the right renal vein were carried out. Pathological findings showed well-differentiated liposarcoma of the renal sinus. The tumor invaded to the right renal vein and the renal parenchyma. [source]


Technical Aspects of Unilateral Dual Kidney Transplantation from Expanded Criteria Donors: Experience of 100 Patients

AMERICAN JOURNAL OF TRANSPLANTATION, Issue 9 2010
B. Ekser
One option for using organs from donors with a suboptimal nephron mass, e.g. expanded criteria donors (ECD) kidneys, is dual kidney transplantation (DKT). In adult recipients, DKT can be carried out by several techniques, but the unilateral placement of both kidneys (UDKT) offers the advantages of single surgical access and shorter operating time. One hundred UDKT were performed using kidneys from ECD donors with a mean age of 72 years (Group 1). The technique consists of transplanting both kidneys extraperitoneally in the same iliac fossa. The results were compared with a cohort of single kidney transplants (SKT) performed with the same selection criteria in the same study period (Group 2, n = 73). Ninety-five percent of UDKTs were positioned in the right iliac fossa, lengthening the right renal vein with an inferior vena cava patch. In 69% of cases, all anastomoses were to the external iliac vessels end-to-side. Surgical complications were comparable in both groups. At 3-year follow-up, patient and graft survival rates were 95.6 and 90.9% in Group 1, respectively. UDKT can be carried out with comparable surgical complication rates as SKT, leaving the contralateral iliac fossa untouched and giving elderly recipients a better chance of receiving a transplant, with optimal results up to 3-years follow-up. [source]


Altered course of the right testicular artery

CLINICAL ANATOMY, Issue 1 2004
M. Bülent Özdemir
Abstract An unusual course of the right testicular artery was observed during routine dissection of the posterior abdominal wall of a 60-year-old male cadaver. It arose from the abdominal aorta, inferior and posterior to the origin of the right renal artery, and passed posterior to the inferior vena cava and right renal vein; it then arched anterior to the inferior pole of the right kidney and descended anterior to the psoas major muscle, crossing anterior to the genitofemoral nerve, ureter and the proximal part of the external iliac artery. Finally, it passed to the deep inguinal ring and through the inguinal canal to enter the spermatic cord with the other constituents. The left testicular artery arose from the abdominal aorta about 1 cm higher than the right testicular artery and followed a normal course. The embryologic basis and clinical importance of this case are discussed. Clin. Anat. 17:67,69, 2004. © 2003 Wiley-Liss, Inc. [source]