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Anatomical Investigation Following Incidental Horseshoe Kidney Finding, Alexandra Cain, Brannan De Voto Noonan, Sara Eliseo, Anthony Sciuva, Leslie Pryor Mcintosh
Anatomical Investigation Following Incidental Horseshoe Kidney Finding, Alexandra Cain, Brannan De Voto Noonan, Sara Eliseo, Anthony Sciuva, Leslie Pryor Mcintosh
Research Day
Horseshoe kidneys are congenital anomalies that result from the fusion of the right and left kidneys across the midline of the abdomen after both kidneys failed to ascend during fetal development. During a standard educational dissection of 12 donor bodies from the Body Donor Program at PCOM Georgia, a horseshoe kidney was discovered in an 88-year-old female with a reported fatality related to left lung carcinoma, encephalopathy, and hypercalcemia. The circumstances of this discovery presents an opportunity to explore the anatomical arrangement of the congenital malformation in detail. Anatomical dissection and analysis of the neurovascular and renal organization was documented …
A Case Of Diastematomyelia Presenting With Minimal Neurologic Deficits In A Middle-Aged Patient, Gabriella Mamo, Rishu Batra, Jeffrey Steinig
A Case Of Diastematomyelia Presenting With Minimal Neurologic Deficits In A Middle-Aged Patient, Gabriella Mamo, Rishu Batra, Jeffrey Steinig
Transitional Year
Diastematomyelia is a rare congenital deformity of the spine in which the spinal cord is split into two hemicords along the sagittal plane. This condition belongs to the group of spinal dysraphisms, is more common in females, and is usually diagnosed prenatally or during childhood; rarely is it diagnosed in adults. We report a male patient in his 50s in which diastematomyelia of the thoracic spine was incidentally encountered after receiving a CT scan of the chest for shortness of breath. Although most patients with this condition are symptomatic, the patient did not display any significant acute neurological complaints at …