GLOMERULOCYSTIC KIDNEY - HYPOTHESIS OF ORIGIN AND PATHOGENESIS

  • 1 January 1977
    • journal article
    • research article
    • Vol. 101  (9) , 462-463
Abstract
Glomerulocystic kidney, a disease primarily of infants, is characterized by dilation of Bowman''s space. An infant whose mother had regularly taken phenacetin during the latter half of her pregnancy is described. This history, with the renal morphologic features of the patient and those described in the literature, suggests that medullary obstruction contributed to the pathogenesis of this lesion.