Background A 32-year-old primiparous woman presented with a painful left-sided giant hydronephrotic kidney secondary to pelvi-ureteric junction obstruction (PUJO). Investigations Renal ultrasonography ...

To established a rat model of partial ureteral obstruction to explore the perfusion rate, renal pelvis volume, obstruction sites, contralateral upper urinary tract, and lower urinary tract functions, ...

Partial nephrectomy (PN) is an alternative surgical treatment that is widely accepted in order to avoid total nephrectomy in many cases of renal tumors. Initially, this form of operation was used in ...

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a multi-organ autoimmune disease that commonly affects the gastrointestinal tract, but can also affect other organs throughout the body. Less is known, however, ...

Abdominal pain refers to discomfort or other uncomfortable sensations that you feel in your belly area. Just about everybody, at one time or another, will get a bellyache. Most causes of abdominal ...

Publisher: Discover STM Publishing Ltd. The first case presented is a rare case of UC of the renal pelvis with osteosarcomatous differentiation and venous tumor thrombus in a 65-year-old man found to ...

Obstructive nephropathy, also know as uropathy, refers to the syndrome caused by urinary tract obstruction, either functional or anatomic. It includes urinary tract dilatation, impedance and the ...

BERKELEY, CA (UroToday.com) - Incidental renal lesions are found in up to approximately 50% of middle-aged adults. The most common renal lesion is a cyst, while the lesion that needs to be excluded is ...