Nephrol Dial Transplant (1999) 14: 2507-2509
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Bilateral thickening of the pericapsular renal area in a patient with refractory oedema of the legs
Centre Hospitalier Universitaire, Grenoble, France
Correspondence and offprint requests to: Professor D J Cordonnier, Service de Nephrologie, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Grenoble, BP 217, 38043 Grenoble Cedex 09, France.
A 77-year-old man was admitted in June 1997 with refractory oedema of both lower limbs and moderate chronic renal insufficiency. He had been treated for hypertension for 30 years. In addition he had had a thyroidectomy for goiter with intrathoracic expansion (1972), prostatic endoscopic resection (1979), Parkinson's disease since 1979, cardiac insufficiency partially stabilized since 1985, repair of a hernia of the abdominal white line (1988) and constrictive pericarditis in 1988 (at
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