Urinary-Tract Malformations

IN the past twenty years little mention has been made in the American literature of the familial occurrence of urinary-tract malformations. Reports on cases of double kidney, pelvis and ureter in families are rare and confined entirely to foreign publications.1 2 3 4 Because the literature on this subject is scanty and the relation is probably much more common than has previously been known, it was thought advisable to publish our observations of upper-urinary-tract duplication involving 3 of 4 members of a family.Case ReportsCase 1. N.T., a 5-year-old girl, was admitted to the hospital on February 2, 1953, with complaints of . . .