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The Kidneys and Ureters

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The kidneys, the ureters and the trigone of the urinary bladder all develop from the intermediate mesoderm. The human embryo develops three embryonic kidney structures during development, the pronephros, mesonephros and metanephros.

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Lee, B., Flett, M. (2019). The Kidneys and Ureters. In: Carachi, R., Doss, S. (eds) Clinical Embryology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26158-4_42

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