Kidney and Urinary Tract Pathology
Kidney Pathology
- Kidney Polycystic Disease
- Poststreptococcal acute diffuse proliferative glomerulonephritis
- Rapidly progressive ("crescentic") glomerulonephritis
- Chronic glomerulonephritis
- Diabetic glomerulosclerosis
- Amyloidosis (kidney)
- Toxic tubular necrosis
- Acute pyelonephritis
- Renal cell carcinoma (Grawitz tumor)
- Nephroblastoma (Wilms' Tumor)
Urinary Tract Pathology
Depending on the affected segment, non-tumor nephropathies can be divided into : glomerular and tubulo-interstitial nephropaties.
Primary glomerulonephritis :
- acute diffuse proliferative glomerulonephritis (nephritic syndrome)
- rapidly progressive (crescentic) glomerulonephritis
- lipoid nephrosis (minimal change disease) (nephrotic syndrome)
- membranous glomerulonephritis (membranous nephropathy) (nephrotic syndrome)
- membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis (nephrotic syndrome)
- focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (nephrotic syndrome)
- IgA nephropathy (Berger's disease)
- chronic glomerulonephritis
Secondary glomerulonephritis may appear during some systemic diseases, such as: systemic lupus erythematosus, diabetes mellitus, amyloidosis, Goodpasture's syndrome, polyarteritis nodosa, Wegener's granulomatosis, Henoch-Schonlein purpura, bacterial endocarditis.
Tubulo-intestitial nephropaties are represented by : acute tubular necrosis (nephrotoxic or ischemic), inflammatory lesions of the tubules and interstitium (acute and chronic pyelonephritis, interstitial nephritis, including drug-induced interstitial nephritis).
Renal tumors are : benign (cortical adenoma, fibroma, angiomyolipoma, oncocytoma, urothelial papilloma) and malignant (renal cell carcinoma - Grawitz tumor, nephroblastoma - Wilms' tumor, urothelial carcinoma, sarcomas).
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