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Cystic dilatations of the upper urinary tract: a radiologist's developmental model.
- Source :
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Radiology [Radiology] 1984 Nov; Vol. 153 (2), pp. 291-301. - Publication Year :
- 1984
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Abstract
- The ureteral bud in the embryonic kidney grows and branches dichotomously for 15 generations. This branching tree is modified by a series of narrowings and expansions and becomes the ureter, the renal pelvis, the calyces, and the collecting tubules. Simultaneously, the ureteral bud induces the formation of nephrons. If many of the renal cystic diseases and congenital dilatations of the renal pelvis and ureter are viewed as a series of growth disturbances along the branching ureteral bud, their morphology and pathophysiology become clarified even though their etiology is often not known.
- Subjects :
- Cysts pathology
Dilatation, Pathologic congenital
Dilatation, Pathologic diagnostic imaging
Diverticulum diagnostic imaging
Humans
Kidney abnormalities
Kidney embryology
Kidney Medulla
Kidney Pelvis abnormalities
Medullary Sponge Kidney diagnostic imaging
Models, Biological
Polycystic Kidney Diseases diagnostic imaging
Radiography
Ureter abnormalities
Ureter embryology
Urinary Tract embryology
Cysts diagnostic imaging
Urinary Tract abnormalities
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 0033-8419
- Volume :
- 153
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- Radiology
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 6435168
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1148/radiology.153.2.6435168