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Kidney - blood and urine flow
Acute arterial occlusion - kidney
Acute tubular necrosis
Bladder outlet obstruction
Chronic renal failure
Dialysis
Distal renal tubular acidosis
Injury - kidney and ureter
Intravenous pyelogram
Kidney disease
Kidney function tests
Kidney stones
Kidney transplant
Medullary cystic kidney disease
Perirenal abscess
Prerenal azotemia
Proximal renal tubular acidosis
Pyelonephritis
Rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis
Renal
Renal and urological disorders
Renal arteriography
Renal biopsy
Renal cell carcinoma
Renal papillary necrosis
Renal perfusion scintiscan
Renal scan
Renal vein thrombosis
Renal venogram
Renin
Ureteral retrograde brush biopsy cytology
This is the typical appearance of the blood vessels (vasculature) and urine flow pattern in the kidney. The blood vessels are shown in red and the urine flow pattern in yellow.
Review Date: 6/8/2011
Reviewed By: David C. Dugdale, III, MD, Professor of Medicine, Division of General Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine; and Herbert Y Lin, MD, PhD, Nephrologist, Massachusetts General Hospital; Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School. Also reviewed by David Zieve, MD, MHA, Medical Director, A.D.A.M., Inc.

