Kidney With Renal Pelvis. Infants and older adults. Each kidney has one pelvis and each consists of a network of intersecting smooth muscle fibers.
Renal pelvis dilation is a condition that affects the urinary system and causes the kidney to swell with fluid. However 40 to 90 of cases are transient and do not represent pathology. Renal pelvis dilation is a condition that affects the urinary system and causes the kidney to swell with fluid.
Renal pelvis enlarged upper end of the ureter the tube through which urine flows from the kidney to the urinary bladder.
Infants and older adults. Generally the renal pelvis is shaped like a funnel and collects urine from the thousands of nephrons found in the kidney. The renal pelvis is the location of several kinds of kidney cancer and is affected by infectio. The pelvis which is shaped somewhat like a funnel that is curved to one side is almost completely enclosed in the deep indentation on the concave side of the kidney the sinus.