What could it be? 10/28/2010



What is this?

What do I have?

I am doing an extra blog for this lab, because I thought that this was something interesting.  While scanning my kidney we found something that appeared abnormal.  We were unsure what it was at the time.  After further research we believe we have figured it out.  It was found that I have a duplex kidney, this means that I have an extra renal pelvis.  This is a normal anatomic variant which can easily be mistaken for a cyst.  The cyst like structure we are seeing is actually where my collecting system sits.  It is outside the kidney, medial to the hilum.  Now it will be interesting to see if I have double ureters.  Can't wait for the pelvis scanning to see if I do.  I am including a picture showing my duplex kidney, one without color and one with color to proof that there is no blood flow within the collecting system.

I will also include the picture of a normal right kidney, for those of you that do not know what one looks like ever.  Unfortunately, my picture may not be as good as the one to the left because I was using a different system.  You should still be able to see the difference though.

Normal Rt Kidney at hilum                                                                Rt Kidney at hilum with duplex kidney