Renal parenchymal disease: histopathologic-sonographic correlation.
Retrospective study of 60 patients with histologically confirmed renal parenchymal disease and ultrasound examination of kidneys was conducted at King Khalid University Hospital (KKUH), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The various renal parenchymal abnormalities were: proliferative glomerulonephritis (26 cases), glomerulosclerosis and focal segmental glomerulonephritis (5 cases), membranous glomerulonephritis (7 cases), minimal changes (12 cases), sclerosing glomerulonephritis (3 cases), chronic interstitial nephritis (2 cases), mesangiocapillary glomerulonephritis (2 cases), amyloidosis (1 case), Wilson's disease (1 case), and medullary cystic disease (1 case). Ultrasound examination was normal in 31 cases (51% of 60 cases) and abnormal in the rest of the cases. Thus, there was no correlation among the specific type of renal disease, cortical echogenicity and corticomedullary definition.
D005921:Glomerulonephritis / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D007674:Kidney Diseases / Q000473:pathology*; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D014463:Ultrasonography