A 59-year-old man fell about two meters. Four days later, he was in an emergency department in Sichuan, China, passing roughly a liter of bright red urine, pale and sweating, with a hemoglobin of 72 grams per liter and a blood pressure of 98 over 65.
A local clinic had already scanned him, found what looked like a torn right kidney, and managed him without surgery. When the bleeding worsened, he was transferred. The CT angiography performed at the referral hospital found the injury. It also found an anatomy that almost nobody in the medical literature has.
