Abstract
Surgery of Genito-Urinary Organs.
Highlights
Moveable Kidney.?It is not many years since the importance, if not the very existence, of such a condition as moveable kidney was denied, and we are told by Dr Mathieu[1] that in young women between fifteen and twenty years of age 12 or 13 per cent, have moveable kidneys, while the same condition is met with in 22 or 23 per cent, of those between twenty and twenty-five years, and in about 40 per cent, between twenty-five and fifty years, while in older patients the proportion falls again to 25 per cent
He emphasises the importance of a previous pregnancy as a factor in the causation of moveable kidney, and still more the frequency of association of dyspepsia with renal mobility
Mr Hastings Gilford[2] is no less definite in his belief in the frequency of " moveable kidney." He discusses the question of a resultant hydronephrosis, and relates cases where the colon took an abnormal course, which might have had an influence in causing undue mobility of the kidney
Summary
Moveable Kidney.?It is not many years since the importance, if not the very existence, of such a condition as moveable kidney was denied, and we are told by Dr Mathieu[1] that in young women between fifteen and twenty years of age 12 or 13 per cent, have moveable kidneys, while the same condition is met with in 22 or 23 per cent, of those between twenty and twenty-five years, and in about 40 per cent, between twenty-five and fifty years, while in older patients the proportion falls again to 25 per cent. He emphasises the importance of a previous pregnancy as a factor in the causation of moveable kidney, and still more the frequency of association of dyspepsia with renal mobility.
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