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  • Title: Medullary sponge kidney.
    Author: Kuiper JJ.
    Journal: Perspect Nephrol Hypertens; 1976; 4():151-71. PubMed ID: 1264564.
    Abstract:
    "Medullary sponge kidney" applies to pathologically dilated collecting tubules within one or more renal pyramids of one or both kidneys, almost always diagnosed radiographically, of uncertain etiology, and presenting a clinical spectrum varying from an asymptomatic, incidental finding to severely complicating calcareous-infective disease, renal insufficiency, and death. Recognition of the characteristic urographic pattern affords the patient presenting clinically with hematuria, ureteral colic, urinary tract infection, or nephrocalcinosis a prompt diagnosis with a frequently benign prognosis, and usually averts more extensive or invasive investigations.
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