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**Renal collecting system forms when ''ureteric bud'' (which grows from cloaca) meets the ''renal blastema'' (kidney parenchyma precursor).
**Renal collecting system forms when ''ureteric bud'' (which grows from cloaca) meets the ''renal blastema'' (kidney parenchyma precursor).



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Multicystic dysplastic kidney, abbreviated MCDK, is a cystic disease of the kidney. It is also known as multicystic renal dysplasia (abbreviated as MRD).[1]

General

  • Most common cause of abdominal mass in newborns.[2]
  • May be unilateral or involve only part of a kidney.[3]

Etiology:

  • Embryological malformation.[4]
    • Renal collecting system forms when ureteric bud (which grows from cloaca) meets the renal blastema (kidney parenchyma precursor).

Gross

  • Kidney has multiple large cysts or differing sizes.

DDx:

  • ARPKD - has less variability of cyst size.

Images:

Microscopic

Features:[3][4]

  • Cystic spaces of variable size.
  • Fibrous stroma.
  • Islands of cartilage.

Image:

Note:

  • Cysts do not communicate with one another.[4]

See also

References

  1. Multicystic Dysplastic Kidney. National Institutes of Health (United States). URL: https://www.niddk.nih.gov/health-information/kidney-disease/children/multicystic-dysplastic-kidney]. Accessed on: 2025-Feb-04.
  2. URL: http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/982560-overview. Accessed on: 4 January 2012.
  3. Jump up to: 3.0 3.1 Klatt, Edward C. (2006). Robbins and Cotran Atlas of Pathology (1st ed.). Saunders. pp. 237. ISBN 978-1416002741.
  4. Jump up to: 4.0 4.1 4.2 PubMed 33252759