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Medullary sponge kidney

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Medullary sponge kidney is a benign asymptomatic developmental anomaly of the kidney mostly seen in adult females. Presentation in childhood is uncommon. Urinary tract infection, nephrolithiasis, hematuria and hypercalciuria are the common complications. We report a eleven-year-old female child who presented with recurrent urinary tract infection and nephrolithiasis and was found to have bilateral medullary sponge kidney.

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  1. Subhod Gupta & Mamta Vaidya

    Present address: Department of Pediatrics, Lokmanya Tilak Municipal Medical College and General Hospital, Sion, Mumbai, India

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    Preeti Shanbag

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Gupta, S., Shanbag, P. & Vaidya, M. Medullary sponge kidney. Indian J Pediatr 69, 1091–1092 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02724396

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