Have a look at this ultrasound video clip, panning from the bladder to the liver showing both kidneys, in the sagittal and oblique sagittal planes.
Some more ultrasound videos of the bilateral ectopic kidneys follow....
The left kidney is seen below- posterior to the urinary bladder in this B-mode ultrasound video (gray scale):
Have a look at the ectopic right kidney, located anterior to the spine, in this right parasagittal section ultrasound video clip:
Note the empty right renal fossa with the right kidney in an abnormal position.
Now the transverse section through the right kidney- see below:
References: http://www.springerlink.com/content/92207432001l2538/
http://www.ultrasound-images.com/kidneys.htm
S-shaped fusion of kidneys
Crossed renal ectopia (good article)
Pictorial display of various kidney fusion anomalies
It is possible that the kidneys seen above may a variant of S-shaped or L-shaped fusion anomaly of the kidneys.
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