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Retroaortic left renal vein: a report of six cases
A Martinez-Almagro1, V Almenar Garcia, V Martinez Sanjuan
1Morphological Sciences Department, Faculty of Medicine, University of Valencia, Spain.
Surgical and Radiologic Anatomy : SRA
|January 1, 1992
Abstract:
Six cases of retroaortic left renal vein have been studied, two in corpses and four by means of Computed Tomography. Any previous pathology has been rejected. The total number of dissected specimens was 116, whereas the patients with non-pathological retroperitoneum studied by CT numbered 170. In our six cases, the left renal vein formed a single trunk of considerable size, retroaortic position and directed obliquely towards the inferior vena cava.