Evaluation of Renal vascular anatomical variations Using Multi-Detector Computerized Tomographic scan in Sudan, the total number of patients studied is 400, 202 (50.5%) male and 98 (49.5%) females, and their ages ranged between (3 - 94) years. The types of Accessory renal arteries were 1.8% (7/24) upper pole, 1.8% (7/24) lower pole and 2.5% (10/24) hilus. In males, 4 upper pole, 4 lower pole and 7 hilus. In females, 3 upper pole, 3 lower pole and 3 hilus. The percentage of right accessory renal arteries is almost twice that of the left and more than twice the bilateral accessory arteries. Accessory renal artery is a common but a significant anatomical variant of the renal vascular system, due to their clinical importance. In our sample, the accessory renal artery presence was detected in 6% and displayed a greater variation on the right than the left side. Because this abnormality plays an important role in kidney transplantations, in radiological, vascular and urological interventions, a detailed presentation of accessory renal artery incidence was conducted, gathering from the literature a large number of relevant studies in order to create a classification according to population, gender, side and specimen. The study concluded that the renal arteries present a broad spectrum of variability in their morphological expression regarding their length, diameter and entrance to the kidney parenchyma, additional arteries’ morphological expression was higher in men than women. This is statistically not significant and variation in the right side was found greater frequency than the left side.
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