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©2013 UpToDate ® Print Email Calcifications in medullary sponge kidney Plain film of the abdomen with tomography in a patient with medullary sponge kidney. There are clusters of calcium stones limited to the upper (not well seen) and lower calyces (arrows) which are the only involved pyramids. From Rose, BD, Pathophysiology of Renal Disease, 2d ed, McGraw-Hill, New York, 1987.

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©2013 UpToDate ® Print Email Calcifications in medullary sponge kidney Plain film of the abdomen with tomography in a patient with medullary sponge kidney. There are clusters of calcium stones limited to the upper (not well seen) and lower calyces (arrows) which are the only involved pyramids. From Rose, BD, Pathophysiology of Renal Disease, 2d ed, McGraw-Hill, New York, 1987. Calcifications in medullary sponge kidney CT scan demonstrates bilateral calcifications at the corticomedullary junction in both kidneys as is typically seen with medullary sponge kidney. There is an absence of interstitial calcifications as may be seen with nephrocalcinosis. Courtesy of Jonathan Kruskal, MD.