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Nephrol Dial Transplant (2000) 15: 2062-2063
© 2000 European Renal Association-European Dialysis and Transplant Association

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Association of medullary sponge kidney disease and multiple endocrine neoplasia type IIA due to RET gene mutation: is there a causal relationship?

Boucar Diouf1, El Hadj Fary Ka1, Alain Calender2, Sophie Giraud2 and Thérèse Moreira Diop1

1 Clinique Médicale I, CHU A Le Dantec, Dakar, Senegal, 2 Laboratoire de Génétique Moléculaire, Hôpital Edouard Herriot, Lyon, France

Sir,

Medullary sponge kidney disease is a congenital affection, characterized by diffuse ectasy or dilatation of the collecting tubules of one or both kidneys. Its main clinical manifestation is renal stone disease. Its diagnosis is made essentially based on X-ray criteria. Its precise prevalence is not known [1,2]. Its pathogenesis is unknown but most authorities agree that it is a congenital anomaly . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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