multicystic dysplastic kidney disease

• most severe form of renal dysplasia
• most common cause of palpaple abdominal mass in infants

• unilateral (90%; fatal if bilateral)
• ureter/renal artery absent or hypoplastic
• NOT associated with other cysts or with periportal fibrosis

• Potter type II

© 2002, C.E. Kahn, Jr.
2002-04-18