Zeitschrift für Nephrologie und Therapeutik

Diagnostic Image of Oligomeganephronia - A temporary Caseillustrated Review

Abstract

Svetla Staykova, Georgi Valchev and Alexander Petrov

Oligomeganephronia is a rare renal anomaly that leads to renal insufficiency in childhood or adolescence. It is morphologically characterized by a decreased number of nephrons with a compensatory hypertrophy of the remaining glomeruli and tubules. The disease belongs to the spectrum of kidney hypoplasia. Oligomeganephronia possesses a rather specific post-contrast computed-tomographic appearance.