Large white kidney from a child with anasarca and ascites

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Large white kidney from a child with anasarca and ascites. St Bartholomew's Hospital Archives & Museum. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Watercolour drawing of a large white kidney, which with its fellow, weighed 11 ounces. The capsule had been removed to show the smooth pale cortex, on which the stellate veins are excellently seen. From a child aged four, who had anasarca and ascites. On section, the cortex was very pale and almost structureless. The pyramids were rather deeply coloured. The capsule separated easily. The kidneys were so much increased in size that they appeared to have belonged to an adult.

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