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Type of Article:  Case Report

Volume 5; Issue 3.2 (August 2017)

Page No.: 4303-4307

DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.16965/ijar.2017.318

AN UNIQUE VARIATION OF RIGHT RENAL ARTERY: A CASE REPORT

Hema Nagpal *1, Renu Chauhan 2, Sunita Kalra 3.

*1 Senior Resident, Department of Anatomy, University College of Medical Sciences, Delhi, India.

2 Professor and Head, Department of Anatomy, University College of Medical Sciences, Delhi, India.

3 Professor, Department of Anatomy, University College of Medical Sciences, Delhi, India.

Corresponding author: Dr. Hema Nagpal, Senior Resident, Department of Anatomy, University College of Medical Sciences, Delhi, India. Phone: 9999072711 E-Mail: hemanagpal30@gmail.com

ABSTRACT

With the advent of laparoscopic renal surgeries and donor nephrectomies, it becomes mandatory for the surgeons to understand the abnormality or variations in the renal vasculature. During routine dissection of the abdominal region for undergraduate medical teaching we observed an unusual variation in the vascular supply of the kidney on the right side of an elderly female cadaver. Main renal artery was arising from abdominal aorta at the level of lower border of L1 and immediately gave off a branch namely right inferior phrenic artery. Approximately 3-4 cm beyond giving this branch main renal artery gave another branch to superior pole of right kidney. The inferior pole of the right kidney was being supplied by another branch which was directly arising from aorta just distal to the first renal artery. No variations were observed in the branching pattern of the left renal artery. This case report discusses the variation of right renal artery observed, which has never been documented. Possible embryological explanation of the variation observed and its clinical implications have been discussed in this article.

Key Words: Renal Artery, Inferior phrenic artery, Renal transplant.

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Cite this article: Hema Nagpal, Renu Chauhan, Sunita Kalra. AN UNIQUE VARIATION OF RIGHT RENAL ARTERY: A CASE REPORT. Int J Anat Res 2017;5(3.2):4303-4307. DOI: 10.16965/ijar.2017.318