The Nephrotic Syndrome in Early Infancy: A Report of Three Cases

2 and 3 at the Annual Meeting of the British Paediatric Association on April 27, 1956. evidence of genetic aetiology inasmuch as two of the infants were brother and sister and both sets of parents were cousins. Further points of interest were the demonstration of anisotropic crystalline material in alcohol-fixed tissues from all three infants, and the discovery on renal microdissection of lesions of the proximal tubule recalling those found in Fanconi-Lignac disease (cystinosis).