The Cephalad Malposition of a Kidney as a Thoracic Abnormality on Tc-99m MDP Bone Scintigraphy

Hung-Jen Hsieh ^{a, b}, Kun-Han Lue ^b

^aDepartment of Nuclear Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
^bDepartment of Nuclear Medicine, Buddhist Tzu Chi General Hospital, Hualien, Taiwan

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Abstract

Thoracic location of an aberrant kidney is the least encountered renal malposition. We present a 62-year-old female patient with ovarian malignant mixed epithelial tumor complicated with massive ascites and right hemidiaphragmatic eventration. The cephalad malpositioned right kidney was found incidentally as an intrathoracic mass on Tc-99m MDP bone scintigraphy.

Keywords

Diaphragmatic eventration; Ovarian tumors; Renal malposition; Tc-99m MDP bone scintigraphy