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Medullary Sponge Kidney in a 10-Year-Old Shih Tzu Dog

Abstract

Medullary sponge kidney was diagnosed in a 10-year-old male Shih Tzu dog with a long history of hyposthenuria, but with no other findings indicating renal failure or hormonal aberration. At the dog's death from heart failure, an autopsy was performed. On gross morphology, bilateral kidneys were normal size and had many cysts ranging from the corticomedullary junction to renal papillae. Histopathologic findings showed that almost all of the cysts were lined by monolayered or multilayered and columnar or cuboidal epithelium with chilium similar to epididymis. Immunohistochemically, all of these cells were strongly positive for AE1/AE3 and negative for vimentin. Many of these cells were positive for cytokeratin 7 (CK7), and only a few cells were positive for desmin. The results of staining are the same as those for epithelium of the collecting duct of normal canine kidney. This is the first report of this pathologic entity in the canine kidney.

Key words: Canine; immunohistochemistry; medullary sponge kidney; renal dysplasia.

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