Putty kidney

  • Arshed Hussain Parry Sher-i-kashmir institute of medical sciences, Soura, Srinagar.
  • Irfan Robbani Department of Radiodiagnosis & Imaging SKIMS
  • Tariq Ahmad Gojwari Department of Radiodiagnosis & Imaging SKIMS
DOI: https://doi.org/10.33883/jms.v22i2.479
Keywords: fibrosis, calyces

Abstract

Renal involvement by tuberculosis leads to fibrosis and multi focal stricturing of calyces with formation of hydrocalyces. The obstructed calyceal system accumulates caseous pus within it which eventually calcifies. This obstructed and calcified kidney is non-functional and is referred to ‘putty kidney’ and this cascade of fibrosis, stricture formation, calcification with complete loss of function is called as autonephrectomy (1,2).

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Author Biographies

Irfan Robbani, Department of Radiodiagnosis & Imaging SKIMS

M.D., Professor

Tariq Ahmad Gojwari, Department of Radiodiagnosis & Imaging SKIMS

M.D., Professor

References

1. Wise GJ, Marella VK. Genitourinary manifestations of tuberculosis. Urol Clin North Am. 2003 Feb;30(1):111-21.
2. Merchant SM. Tuberculosis of the genitourinary system. In Diagnostic Radiology and Imaging (2nd Edn). Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers (P) Ltd. New Delhi 2003;1997;627-56.
Published
2019-10-01
How to Cite
1.
Parry A, Robbani I, Gojwari TA. Putty kidney. jms [Internet]. 2019Oct.1 [cited 2026Oct.2];22(2):45. Available from: http://ano.jmsskims.org/index.php/jms/article/view/479
Issue
Vol 22 No 2 (2019): July - September
Section
Clinical Images
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