Purpose: Renal ultrasonography has been widely used in children with renal disease. However, the relationship of renal echogenicity with renal pathology and function in children is not well known. Method: Ultrasound examination was performed in 75 patients undergoing renal biopsy for suspected renal disease in Konkuk University Medical Center from August 2005 to November 2015. We compared renal...

A retrospective study of 109 patients who underwent renal biopsy was designed to correlate the sonographic appearance of the kidney with the histologic changes and clinical and laboratory findings in various renal parenchymal diseases. The clinical, pathologic, and sonographic data were analyzed blindly and independently by a team from each corresponding discipline. There was no correlation bet...

case presentation a preterm neonate with suspicious rt renal mass and oligohydramnios at prenatal ultrasound was hospitalized due to respiratory distress and hypertension. although postnatal ultrasound showed enlarged echogenic rt kidney and normal sized echogenic lt kidney, regarding to linear array transducer findings, arpkd was considered rather than renal mass. the diagnosis was confirmed a...

Several authors have reported abnormal sonographic findings in infants with bacterial meningitis [1-4]: hydrocephalus, ventriculitis, prominent echogenic leptomeninges, abscess, subdural effusions, cerebral edema, and focal areas of increased brain parenchymal echogenicity. We report the observation of increased gyral echogenicity in two patients with bacterial meningitis and discuss its pathop...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of our study was to determine the frequency of hyperechogenicity of renal parenchyma in children with acute abdominal illness and to evaluate the assumed transient feature of this hyperechogenicity. MATERIALS AND METHODS Between January 2005 and February 2006, 189 consecutive patients (112 boys and 77 girls; mean age, 10 years) presenting with acute abdominal pain were e...

the correlation of vesicoureteral reflux (vur), urinary tract infection (uti) and renal scarring is well known. several risk factors for renal parenchymal lesions have been reported previously. we determine the incidence of renal parenchymal damage and outcome in the siblings of children with primary vur. a total of 96 siblings of patients with vur, were evaluated with direct voiding cystograph...