Bilateral Renocortical Necrosis with Recovery

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Abstract
BECAUSE the diagnosis of bilateral cortical necrosis cannot be established without pathological sections of the kidney, it cannot be made definitively in patients surviving episodes of anuria without renal biopsies.Three cases have previously been reported. The case presented below is the fourth proved by microscopical examination of the kidney and followed by survival. In 1927 Crook1 described a twenty-nine-year-old post-partum woman who recovered from anuria secondary to cortical necrosis proved by a biopsy taken at the time of decapsulation of the kidneys. In 1955 Gormsen et al.2 noted the second case of cortical necrosis, proved by a needle biopsy, . . .

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