A Review of Vascular Pattern of Human Kidney by Corrosion Cast Technique

Until the middle of nineteenth century, renal surgery had invariably been limited to drainage of the perirenal abscesses or pyonephrosis. By the end of the century, major renal surgical procedures, like nephrectomise etc did catch the surgeons’ fancies. John hunter (1793) Brodel (1954) studied the renal vascular segments and enunciated the segmental structure of the kidney. These observations opened the new chapter in the anatomy of the kidney and tempted conservative genitourinary surgeons at modifications of their surgical procedures for dealing with serious renal pathologies. The realisation of the segmental nature of the distribution of renal arteries led to the attempts at preservation of significant healthy renal tissue, even with not so satisfactory renal function, than to its complete removal.

The advent of more conservative methods practised in modern genitourinary surgery, necessitated a perfect and precise knowledge of the renal vascular segments. The present study is a modest venture to further elucidate the renal vascular segments in autopsy material and provide a fairly precise anatomical data for the practise of modern urological surgery.