Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of normal and diseased kidneys shows great promise because of the combined value of anatomical and functional information provided, as well as of specific contrast patterns that can be observed non-invasively. Multicontrast MRI is able to show infiltrative kidney disorders. Diffusion-weighted imaging can assess alterations in renal function and can suggest obstr...

Bioartificial kidneys (BAKs) combine a conventional hemofilter in series with a bioreactor unit containing renal epithelial cells. The epithelial cells derived from the renal tubule should provide transport, metabolic, endocrinologic and immunomodulatory functions. Currently, primary human renal proximal tubule cells are most relevant for clinical applications. However, the use of human primary...

BACKGROUND Patients with unilateral MultiCystic Kidney Dysplasia (MCKD) or unilateral renal agenesis (URA) have a congenital solitary functioning kidney (CSFK) that is compensatory enlarged. The question whether this enlargement is due to increased nephron numbers and/or to nephron hypertrophy is unresolved. This question is of utmost clinical importance, since hypertrophy is associated with a ...

OBJECTIVE This prospective study was designed to detect the role of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in refining the diagnosis of suspected fetal renal anomalies detected during screening sonography. MATERIAL AND METHODS 54 pregnant women, with suspected fetal renal anomalies detected during routine ultrasound screening, were rescanned by MRI to refine the diagnosis of the suspected renal ano...

Benign multicystic peritoneal mesothelioma (BMPM) is a rare disease arising from the peritoneal mesothelium. Here, we report a 57-year-old woman admitted to our unit with an incisional hernia fifteen years later following her first operation due to BMPM. Computerized tomography demonstrated a cystic appearing mass with intraabdominal extension in hernia sac. The patient underwent en bloc resect...

Abusive head trauma (AHT) is one of the most severe forms of physical child abuse. If a child initially survives severe AHT the neurological outcome can be poor. In recent years several children were seen who developed multicystic encephalomalacia (MCE) after documented severe AHT. A search of the Netherlands Forensic Institute database in The Hague was performed. Inclusion criteria were cases ...

A is a rare high-grade malignant tumor of primary occurrence that accounts for less than 2% of soft tissue sarcomas.1 They originate in the endothelium of the blood and lymphatic vessels, and they could be primary or metastatic with various grades of differentiation. They could also be either localized or multicentric. Most of them occur in skin and in soft tissue, while the remaining occurs in...

Reported is the case of a 17-year-old girl with a multicystic tumor in the middle of the right kidney. Partial nephrectomy revealed an epithelial neoplasm with multilocular cystic renal cell carcinoma pattern. The cells exhibited strong nuclear reactivity for TFE3 protein and supported the diagnosis of Xp11 translocation carcinoma of the kidney. A similar case has not been found in the literatu...

Horseshoe kidney is the most common fusion abnormalities in the kidney and occurs in 1 per 400 people with the male:female ratio of 2:1 [1–3]. Horseshoe kidneys may be a result of teratogenic factors, which may also be responsible for the known increase in the incidence of related congenital anomalies and nephroblastoma [4]. Horseshoe kidney is a non-fatal anomaly of renal development that ofte...