Al Eraky Mahmoud, Hassan Lamma, Abou Zaid Ahmed, Arabi Hisham
Pediatrics Department, King Abdullah Specialist Children Hospital (KASCH), Riyadh, SAU.
Medical Education, College of Medicine, Alfaisal University, Riyadh, SAU.
Cureus. 2022 Feb 28;14(2):e22674. doi: 10.7759/cureus.22674. eCollection 2022 Feb.
Thoracic ectopic kidney is the rarest type of ectopic kidney with a reported finding of one in every 15,000 autopsies. The diagnosis of this anomaly is often incidental. Children may be symptomatic with recurrent respiratory symptoms. We present a case of an infant with a thoracic ectopic kidney associated with a congenital diaphragmatic hernia that was initially misdiagnosed as unresolved pneumonia due to persistent well-demarcated opacity in the left lower lobe. Our aim is to increase awareness about this rare entity.
胸内异位肾是异位肾中最罕见的类型,据报道,每15000例尸检中才有1例发现。这种异常情况的诊断通常是偶然的。儿童可能会出现反复呼吸道症状。我们报告一例患有胸内异位肾并伴有先天性膈疝的婴儿病例,该患儿最初因左下叶持续存在界限清晰的 opacity 而被误诊为未治愈的肺炎。我们的目的是提高对这种罕见病症的认识。