Difference between revisions of "Renal segmental hypoplasia"

'''Renal segmental hypoplasia''', also known as '''Ask-Upmark kidney''',<ref name=pmid501498>{{Cite journal  | last1 = Arant | first1 = BS. | last2 = Sotelo-Avila | first2 = C. | last3 = Bernstein | first3 = J. | title = Segmental "hypoplasia" of the kidney (Ask-Upmark). | journal = J Pediatr | volume = 95 | issue = 6 | pages = 931-9 | month = Dec | year = 1979 | doi =  | PMID = 501498 }}</ref> is rare benign pathology of the kidney that may cause [[hypertension]].<ref name=pmid15647775/>

 

It is also known as ''segmental renal atrophy''.