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To determine the spectrum of urologic disease and the value of ultrasound as a screening mechanism, renal imaging was performed on 23 patients with Bardet-Biedl syndrome. On intravenous urography (IVU), abnormal calices were present in 22 patients, with communicating cortical cysts/diverticula in 17. Ultrasound detected caliceal or cystic changes in 70%. On IVU, 21 patients had fetal-type lobular outlines that were detected on sonography in 95%.
Renal structural abnormalities are characteristic of the Bardet-Biedl syndrome, and are still best imaged by urography.
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Cramer, B., Green, J., Harnett, J. et al. Sonographic and urographic correlation in Bardet-Biedl syndrome (Formerly Laurence-Moon-Biedl Syndrome). Urol Radiol 10, 176–180 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02926564
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