Polycystic kidneys without radiologic enlargement.
Polycystic kidneys in adults usually appear in the middle years and are described as large kidneys with most of their parenchyma displaced by a large number of cysts. Often the diagnosis is excluded if the intravenous pyelogram reveals kidneys of normal size. This report describes a patient with normal sized polycystic kidneys discovered at an advanced age.
D000368:Aged; D006801:Humans; D006984:Hypertrophy; D007668:Kidney / Q000473:pathology; D008297:Male; D009392:Nephrectomy; D007690:Polycystic Kidney Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000601:surgery; D011859:Radiography