TITLE:
Symptomatic Pelvic Kidney in Women at Childbearing Potential: Diagnostic Difficulties and Management in Urology Department of N’Djamena in Chad
AUTHORS:
Kimassoum Rimtebaye, Edouard Hervé Moby Mpah, Arya Zarif Agah Tashkand, Franklin Danki Sillong, Mignagnal Kaboro, Lamine Niang, Serigne Magueye Gueye
KEYWORDS:
Pelvis, Iterative Cesarean, Malrotation, Nephrectomy, IVU
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Urology,
Vol.5 No.12,
December
28,
2015
ABSTRACT: Introduction: We aim to report, from three
observations, the diagnostic difficulties and complications, and ensure the
management of pelvic kidney in women at childbearing age in the Urology
Department of the National General Referral Hospital of N’Djamena. Pelvic
kidney is due to an abnormality of the migration that can be associated or not
with a malrotation. Its symptomatology is not specific, causing diagnostic
difficulties and therapeutic errors. Observation: There were three observations
of female patients aged respectively 26, 29 and 32 years who were taken care of
for years in the gynecology department for pelvic inflammatory disease before
being routed in urology. The diagnosis of pelvic kidney was retained on the
basis of morphological examination (ultrasound, intravenous urography, CT
urography). The patients have undergone nephrectomy; the postoperative
aftermath was simple. Conclusion: Pelvic kidney is a rare disease. It is often
discovered during autopsy. Symptoms are non-specific; nephrectomy is the
treatment of choice in symptomatic cases.