Introduction: Retroperitoneoscopic laparoendoscopic single-site surgery for congenital midureteral stricture was performed in a nulliparous girl with contralateral multicystic dysplastic kidney. Case Description: The patient presented with a 4-year history of intermittent right flank pain and 3 episodes of right acute pyelonephritis. A right-sided retrograde ureteropyelogram showed a short and ...

A 2-month-old girl having a left multicystic dysplastic kidney with contralateral mild hydronephrosis is described. Furosemide was administered orally because of hyperpotassemia during the period between 1 month and 7 months of age. Peripheral plasma renin activity and plasma aldosterone activity increased at the age of 6 months, and ultimately reached the peak at 9 days after discontinuation o...

OBJECTIVE To assess the clinical implication of chromosomal microarray analysis (CMA) in prenatal diagnosis of MCDK. METHODS Thirty-seven cases with MCDKs detected by prenatal ultrasound were enrolled in the study; 33 cases were isolated MCDKs and four cases were non-isolated MCDKs. CMA was performed on the Affymetrix CytoScan HD platform. The frequencies of the detected CNVs were compared wi...

The urological management of multicystic dysplastic kidneys (MCDK) in the pediatric patient is controversial. Historically, MCDK was rare, presenting with a palpable mass or symptoms, and was managed with open nephrectomy. Wilms’ tumour was listed on the differential diagnosis. Introduction of antenatal ultrasound transformed MCDK into a common condition which is generally asymptomatic at prese...

The case of a forty-three year old woman is reported. She was operated on for a pelvic abdominal multicystic peritoneal mesothelioma which was discovered at the time of a systematic gynaecological examination. We specify the anatomo-clinical characteristics of multicystic mesothelioma from the 118 cases described in the literature and related in detail the stages of histopathological diagnosis....