Medullary sponge kidney (Lenarduzzi-Cacchi-Ricci disease): A Padua Medical School discovery in the 1930s

Kidney International

Volumn 69, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 663-670

  Gambaro, G ^a,c   Feltrin, G P ^b   Lupo, A ^a   Bonfante, L ^b   D'Angelo, A ^b   Antonello, A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF VERONA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^c MAGGIORE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Precalyceal ducts; Renal embryogenesis; Sponge kidney; Urography

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; GLIAL CELL LINE DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; INDIGO CARMINE; IODOPYRIDONE; IODOXYL; PROTEIN RET; SILVER; SODIUM IODIDE; THORIUM;

BECKWITH WIEDEMANN SYNDROME; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; GENE MUTATION; HEMIHYPERTROPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING; INTRAVENOUS UROGRAPHY; KIDNEY CALCIFICATION; KIDNEY MALFORMATION; KIDNEY POLYCYSTIC DISEASE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEDICAL SCHOOL; MEDULLARY SPONGE KIDNEY; NEPHRECTOMY; NEPHROBLASTOMA; NEPHROLITHIASIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOGENESIS; PNEUMOPERITONEUM; PRIMARY HYPERPARATHYROIDISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYELOGRAPHY; RADIODIAGNOSIS; REVIEW; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; URETER CATHETERIZATION; VETERAN;

CONTRAST MEDIA; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; ITALY; KIDNEY; MEDULLARY SPONGE KIDNEY; UROGRAPHY;

EID: 32544439250     PISSN: 00852538     EISSN: 15231755     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.ki.5000035     Document Type: Review

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