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Green reports the case of a female child in which the right
kidney and right Fallopian tube and ovary were absent without any
rudimentary structures in their place. Guiteras and Riesman have
noted the absence of the right kidney, right ureter, and right
adrenal in an old woman who had died of chronic nephritis. The
left kidney although cirrhotic was very much enlarged.
Tompsett describes a necropsy made on a coolie child of nearly
twelve months, in which it was seen that in the place of a kidney
there were two left organs connected at the apices by a
prolongation of the cortical substance of each; the child had
died of neglected malarial fever. Sandifort speaks of a case of
double kidneys and double ureters, and cases of supernumerary
kidney are not uncommon, generally being segmentation of one of
the normal kidneys. Rayer has seen three kidneys united and
formed like a horseshoe. We are quite familiar with the ordinary
"horseshoe kidney," in which two normal kidneys are connected.
There are several forms of displacement of the kidneys, the most
common being the "floating kidney," which is sometimes
successfully removed or fixed; Rayer has made an extensive study
of this anomaly.
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