Abstract
SUMMARY Horseshoe kidney anomaly is the result of an embryonic fault occurring between the fourth and eighth week of foetal life. The two renal blastemas become fused before migration and rotation. This accounts for the abnormal relation of the renal pelvis and parenchyma. This review includes twenty–nine cases admitted to the Urological Department, Meath Hospital, Dublin, since 1942. The length of the follow–up varied from three months to twenty–one years. Fifteen cases had one or more surgical procedures and fourteen were treated conservatively. Three cases could not be traced for the follow–up, and two cases died from other diseases after living for six and ten years.
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