[Ask-Upmark kidney: description of a case and review of the literature].
We present a 15-year-old male patient diagnosed histopathologically as suffering from Ask-Upmark kidney, in the absence of vesicoureteral reflux and with hypertension. The first clinical manifestation was completely atypical: right loin pain, with so many agudisation treated at our emergency serve that justified a thorough study. The pathogenesis of the Ask-Upmark kidney is still unknown; some authors defend the congenital malformation hypothesis, as it was first described in 1929, but there are groups who support the Ask-Upmark kidney as a form of reflux nephropathy. After our description we present a review of the literature.
Sotelo Burillo
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E
Servicio de Urología del Hospital Universitari de la Vall d'Hebrón, Barcelona.
Calvo Mateos
M A
MA
Raventós Busquets
C X
CX
Martínez Cuenca
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E
Peña González
J A
JA
Encarnación
R
R
Montesinos
A
A
de Torres Mateo
J A
JA
de Torres
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I
D000293:Adolescent; D006801:Humans; D007668:Kidney / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000473:pathology*; D008297:Male