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Medical Journal of the Islamic Republic of Iran. 1988; 2 (2): 161-3
in English
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ABSTRACT
We report a patient who was admitted to the department of medicine with palpitation, dyspnea and left flank pain. Chest X-ray revealed a mass in the left lung. The lesion was evaluated as a pulmonary tumor, with a high suspicion of malignancy. Intravenous urography, sonography, and CT- scanning revealed a thoracic kidney at the location previously thought to be a lung mass. This is the first report of a CT-scanning evaluation of thoracic kidney