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Retroaortic renal vein occurs as part of the complex developmental of the inferior vena cava. The exact incidence is unknown (estimated 3%), but it is increasingly being reported with high-resolution images on CT and MRI. Patients are usually asymptomatic, but compression of the renal vein may cause haematuria, flank pain and varicoceles. It is important to report a retroaortic left renal vein if a patient is going to have a nephrectomy, either for malignancy, or as a living kidney donor.
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Belfield, J.C. (2011). Chapter 10: Normal Anatomical Variants. In: Radiological Anatomy for FRCR Part 1. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-13751-8_10
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