Ask-Upmark kidney

Ask-Upmark kidney
a hypoplastic kidney with fewer lobules than usual and fissures on its surface; most affected persons have severe hypertension, sometimes with hypertensive encephalopathy and retinopathy. The condition may be either congenital or secondary to vesicoureteral reflux with pyelonephritis. Called also segmental renal hypoplasia.

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