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RENAL SINUS LIPOMATOSIS: A REPORT OF TWENTY‐SIX CASES
Author(s) -
POILLY JN.,
DICKIE J. E. N.,
JAMES W. B.
Publication year - 1969
Publication title -
british journal of urology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.773
H-Index - 148
eISSN - 1464-410X
pISSN - 0007-1331
DOI - 10.1111/j.1464-410x.1969.tb11881.x
Subject(s) - lipomatosis , medicine , etiology , incidence (geometry) , sinus (botany) , chronic pyelonephritis , urinary system , chronic renal failure , surgery , renal sinus , kidney , nephrectomy , physics , botany , optics , biology , genus
SUMMARY A review of 3,500 intravenous pyelograms of patients attending a general hospital has been carried out and has shown an incidence of 0.66 per cent, for radiologically diagnosed renal sinus lipomatosis. Material obtained from this review and previously published literature suggests that there is no significant sex preponderance, that the entity is most commonly discovered in the sixth decade of life, and that possible aetiological factors are urinary stones, chronic pyelonephritis, obesity and hypertension. In about one‐fifth of cases no cause could be found. No definite evidence has been found to consider conditions other than those given above as causes of renal sinus lipomatosis. Three reasons for the importance of this condition are given.