腎無形成(Renal Aplasia)の1例

Abstract

This report deals with a case of renal aplasia arise n in a 42 years old farm housewife who visited our clinic with complaints of right lower abdominal pain and proteinuria. A definite diagnosis was not established prior to the operation, but she was operated on left total nephrectomy under a suspicious diagnosis of renal tuberculosis. The extirpated kidney was 4.5x 3.5 x1.0 cm in size, 13 g r ams in weight and consisted of 6 cysts. The ureter was not distinct. Histological examination confirmed the picture compatible to that of renal aplasia. In this case, no deformity of the sexual organs nor ectopic ureteral opening was found despite the other side kidney was possessed by nephritis with hypertension.