Volume 1

Surgical diseases of the kidney and ureter including injuries, malformations and misplacements.

Morris, Henry, 1844-

Date:: [pref. 1901]

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Credit: Surgical diseases of the kidney and ureter including injuries, malformations and misplacements. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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contains uric acid crystals, cryst^ils of phosphates, and ammonio- magnesian phosphates, phospJaates of soda, and oxalate of lime- chloride of sodium, httle if any albumen, and scolices or hooklets are usually present. Sometimes small calculi the size of peas or horse-beans composed of these salts are formed in the cysts When the cysts are of large volume they are apt to contract adhesions with surrounding organs. In manv cases a hydatid Fig. 106.—Hydatid Cyst of Kidney, about three inches in diameter, with partly calcified walls. It does not commnnicate with the renal ca^dty. (St. Thomas's Hospital Museum, No. 2134.) cyst of the kidney has co-existed in the same person with hydatid C3'st of some organ tissue or organ, but especially of the liver. An echinococcus cyst may bring about an abnormal degree of mobility of the kidney. A renal hydatid cyst may burst into the pelvis of the kidney, or into the intestine or lung. Out of sixty-eight cases collected by Beraud forty-eight opened into the pelvis of the kidney, with the development in some cases of pyelitis. Ebstein states that cysts open into the renal pelvis most quickly when they are developed in the medullary cones. The tumour in these cases does not attain a large size. When developed in the cortex, or