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* Bilateral kidney involvement results in stillbirth  
* Bilateral kidney involvement results in stillbirth  


* Flank, irregular, mobile, nontender abdominal mass in infants  
* Irregular, mobile, nontender, flank abdominal mass in infants  


* Lobulated renal contour
* Lobulated renal contour

Revision as of 17:03, 5 November 2015

  • Detected prenatally
  • Bilateral kidney involvement results in stillbirth
  • Irregular, mobile, nontender, flank abdominal mass in infants
  • Lobulated renal contour
  • Multiple, noncommunicating cysts
  • Cluster of cysts with variable sizes (1mm-2cm) and shapes
  • Dysplastic parenchyma
  • Absence of a normal pelvocaliceal system


  • Nests of metaplastic cartilage and undifferentiated epithelial ducts
  • Extensive fibrous tissue stroma
  • Thin-walled cysts cysts filled with yellow/clear fluid











Nonmalignant causes

cystic renal dysplasia glomerulocystic kidney  mesothelial cysts nephronophthisis