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Supernumerary Renal Vein

• most common venous anomalies are multiple renal veins seen in approximately 15-30% of patients
• more common on the right side and these occur in up to 30% of individuals
• Supernumerary right renal vein in 30-year-old male voluntary kidney donor.
  • Curved coronal maximum intensity projection image show two right renal veins crossing each other and draining into inferior vena cava (arrows).

Renal Vascular Anomalies: Multiple renal arteries | Accessory renal artery | Supernumerary right renal vein 1 | Supernumerary right renal vein 1 | Multiple right renal veins 2 | Multiple right renal veins 2 | Cardiovascular System Development

Original file name: Fig. 8 kjr-11-346-g008.jpg (panel A cropped from full image)

Reference

Kumar S, Neyaz Z & Gupta A. (2010). The utility of 64 channel multidetector CT angiography for evaluating the renal vascular anatomy and possible variations: a pictorial essay. Korean J Radiol , 11, 346-54. PMID: 20461189 DOI.

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