Kidney
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The kidney is an important organ in the abdomen that does the following:
- water balance & blood pressure regulation,
- acid-base balance,
- removes toxins/cleans the blood, and
- produces hormones (e.g. erythropoietin).
Tumours
Main article: Kidney tumours
This is mostly the domain of urology.
This article cover the common renal tumours:
- Renal cell carcinoma.
- Oncocytoma.
Urothelial tumours are dealt with in the urothelium article.
Medical kidney diseases
Main article: Medical kidney diseases
This is almost a specialty for itself. Lots of interaction of nephrologists.