Kidney Pictures

    This page contains a mix of normal, healthy kidneys and severely damaged, diseased kidneys. The diseased kidneys could result in the need for a transplant.

  

                                   

 

The above picture is of a normal, healthy       The above picture is of a kidney with a pale   The above picture shows kidneys with
kidney.                                                          yellow abscess, signaling an infection.            micro abscesses, signaling a bacterial infection.

 

                                  

 

This picture shows a more common infection    This picture shows a mass-like lesion         This pictures shows a kidney covered
that shows the same yellowish abscesses as      from a long standing renal infection.           with cysts due to renal failure. These cysts
in the top, right picture.                                                                                                             are usually present at birth, but they would not
                                                                                                                                                     start affecting you until adult life.

    

 

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