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We present a patient with a recurrent precaval left renal artery, stemming from a right-sided common trunk renal artery. The patient was a 44-year male who presented with a post-traumatic grade IV renal injury. After 3 months without renal function improvement and repeated urinary tract infection, a laparoscopic nephrectomy of the affected right kidney was performed, without upfront identification of the vascular variation, resulting in ischemia of the remaining left kidney. An anastomosis of the common renal trunk and the distal left renal artery was created in between the abdominal aorta and the inferior vena cava. This case describes the importance of upfront detection of renal vascular variations using the appropriate imaging techniques.
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Buisman, W.J., Ünlü, Ç., de Boer, S.W. et al. An undetected common renal arterial trunk: surgical consequences and morbidity analysis. Surg Radiol Anat 38, 1111–1114 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00276-016-1638-5
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