Fetal renal pelvic dilatation (RPD) is detected in approximately 1% of all prenatal ultrasounds, making it one of the most common ultrasound-detected abnormality. The majority of patients with ...

Babies who have persistent fluid-filled areas in their kidneys during gestation are likely to present with urinary tract problems and to be admitted to hospital in early childhood, according to new ...

At 20-22 weeks' gestational age, high-resolution ultrasonography very often reports dilation of the renal pelvis of the fetus. Please suggest the follow-up and outcomes of such findings. The ...

Antenatal hydronephrosis, defined as dilation of the fetal renal collecting system detected by routine obstetric ultrasound, affects around 1–4 % of pregnancies and presents a spectrum from transient ...

Read at the meeting of the Suffolk District Medical Society in conjunction with the Boston Medical Library, Feb. 5, 1908.