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MICRODISSECTION STUDY OF NEPHRONS AND CYSTS FROM AN INFANT WITH PYELONEPHRITIS
Author(s) -
BIALESTOCK DORA
Publication year - 1958
Publication title -
australasian annals of medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.596
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1445-5994
pISSN - 0571-9283
DOI - 10.1111/imj.1958.7.2.93
Subject(s) - microdissection , kidney , anatomy , pathology , biology , kidney tubules , medicine , endocrinology , gene , biochemistry
Summary A unilateral non‐functioning kidney removed from a premature neonate because of pyelonephritis was examined by microdissection. This showed a degree of change which was not apparent on simple histological examination. Microdissection of the kidney showed it to be composed predominantly of nephrons which had short poorly‐convoluted proximal tubules with only rudimentary loops of Henle. Along the length of the normal structures localized dilatations were not infrequently found. Gross cystic changes were demonstrated in glomeruli, tubules and collecting ducts, and measurements of some of the normal and grossly abnormal structures are recorded.