Keeping your kidney close to your chest

The organ initially appeared to be missing

We’ve brought you a pancake kidney, an anomalous extra kidney and now a kidney where it doesn’t belong.

When a 77-year-old man presented to ED with nausea, vomiting and diarrhoea, physical examination flagged decreased breath sounds in the lower third of the right side of his chest.

An X-ray revealed an opacity in the right hemithorax, but an ultrasonography showed no evidence of a pleural effusion.

However, it also showed no right kidney.