The incidence and importance of renal duplication

JTJ Privett, WD Jeans, J Roylance - Clinical radiology, 1976 - Elsevier
The excretory urograms performed on 1716 children and 3480 adults have been examined
to find the incidence and complications of renal duplication. Ninety-five patients with
duplication were found, unilateral in 79 and bilateral in 16 patients. It was equally common
on each side and was twice as common in females as in males. Non-duplex kidneys had a
mean of 9.4 calyces and duplex kidneys had a mean of 3.7 in upper and 7.6 calyces in lower
moieties. In patients without renal disease and with unilateral duplication the two kidneys …