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Clin Genitourin Cancer
December 2024
Department of Urology, Ghent University Hospital, ERN eUROGEN accredited center, Ghent, Belgium. Electronic address:
Front Cell Infect Microbiol
February 2024
Department of Biomedical Sciences, Rocky Vista University College of Osteopathic Medicine, Parker, CO, United States.
A 51-year-old male with a history of Cacchi-Ricci disease and long-standing infection with various species of presented with recurrent symptoms of right-sided flank pain. Numerous renal calculi were identified on imaging. The etiology of the calculi had not been previously elucidated.
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July 2016
Service de radiologie, hôpital militaire My Ismail, Meknès, Maroc.
The remarkable progresses of imagistic and interventional techniques that have been implemented during the last decades facilitated the diagnostic and allowed the treatment indication changes for numerous renal disorders. The purpose of the present lecture was to outline a data review concerning a renal anomaly first described one century ago as well as to evaluate the impact of endourologic technical progresses over the therapeutic management of the respective disease. The medullary sponge kidney (MSK) or Cacchi-Ricci disorder represents a disturbance in the renal development characterized by the cystic type dilation and diffuse precalyceal ducts ectasias.
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April 2014
Department of Life, Health & Environmental Sciences, University of L'Aquila, "Giuseppe Mazzini" General Hospital, Teramo, Italy.
The medullary sponge kidney is also known as Lenarduzzi's kidney or Cacchi and Ricci's disease from the first Italian authors who described its main features. A review of the scientific literature underlines particular rarity of the association of MSK with developmental abnormalities of the lower urinary tract and genital tract such as hypospadias and bilateral cryptorchidism. The work presented is the only one in the scientific literature that shows the association between the medullary sponge kidney and the testicular dysgenesis syndrome.
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