Nephrology & Therapeutics

Multicystic Renal dysplasia & microscopic

The microscopic attendance of a multicystic dysplastic kidney (cystic renal dysplasia, or Potter type II) is categorized by large cysts lined by compressed cuboidal epithelium and an superseding parenchyma that is fibrotic with islands of bluish cartilage and rare glomeruli.

Multicystic dysplastic kidney is the most common cause of an abdominal mass in the newborn period and is the most common cystic abnormality of the kidney in infancy.  Prescription Logo dysplastic kidney (MCDK), a variant of renal dysplasia, is one of the most repeatedly identified organic anomalies of the urinary tract. Renal ultrasonography is the applauded initial diagnostic imaging study. The role of nephrectomy in the treatment of multicystic dysplastic kidney is controversialMulticystic dysplastic kidney is the most common cause of an abdominal mass in the newborn period and is the most common cystic abnormality of the kidney in infancy. See the image below