The kidneys as vital organ may be able to perform their role to lead normal life with their one fourth of normal renal parenchyma. It is worth while to study what kidney lesions to be found and what is the proportion of it among the Korean post-mortem...
The kidneys as vital organ may be able to perform their role to lead normal life with their one fourth of normal renal parenchyma. It is worth while to study what kidney lesions to be found and what is the proportion of it among the Korean post-mortem necropsy. This paper presents the histo-pathological study of kidneys collected at random from accidental death, who had an usual activity as a normal individaul before their death.
These materials were taken from 177 cases, and histo-pathological examinations on these materials were carried out from both kidneys employing the H·E staining technique.
1) The age distribution ranges from the new born to 69 years of age, and these 177 cases were divided into three age groups; under 19 rears of age (15%), between 20 to 39 (57%), and between 40 to 65(38%).
2) The males were 117 cases and females 60 cases.
3) The histo-pathological examination showed 11 cases of chronic pyelonephritis (6.22%), 16 cases of nephrosclerosis (9.04%), 2 cases of glomerulonephritis.
4) The chronic pyelonephritis were 6 per cent in male and 6.67 per cent in female.
5) The incidences of chronic pyelonephritis in three age groups were as follows: 7.5% under 19 years of age 6% between 20 to 39 and 69% between 40 to 69.
In the nephrosclerosis, there was none under 19 years of age, while 3.0 per coat were found in the age group between 20 to 39 and 26 per cent in the age group between 40 to 69, which was about 9 times of young age group.