Recessive polycystic kidney disease and congenital hypertrophic pyloric stenosis

Pediatr Radiol (1991) 21:160 Pediatric Radiology 9 Springer-Verlag 1991 Letter to the Editor Dear Sir, Recently we have come across a newborn female child who presented with bilateral flank masses. On sonography, contrast enhanced computerized tomography and post-CT abdominal X-ray, the masses were diagnosed as CHPS has been reported; the former [1] was of a recessive type while the latter [2] was of a dominant polycystic variety. We are not sure whether its a chance phenomenon only or some genetic link is present. Any reader who has a similar observation please write to us. Yours sincerely, A. K. Gupta and M. Berry of the kidney and liver: clinical, pathological and radiological correlations and comparison with congenital hepatic fibrosis. Medicine 50:277 2. Loh JR Haller JO, Kassner EG, Aloni A, Glassberg K (1977) Dominantly inherited polycystic kidneys in infants: association with hypertrophic pyloric stenosis. Pediatr Radiol 6:27 Dr. A. K. Gupta Department of Radio-Diagnosis All India Institute of Medical Sciences New Delhi-110 029 India Recessive Polycystic Kidney Disease (RPKD). The child started of vomit from day 7. Since renal and other biochemical parameters were normal, a repeat ultrasound of the abdomen was done which demonstrated congenital hypertrophic pyloric stenosis (CHPS). This was later confirmed on barium upper GI series and at surgery. We have come across only two reports [1,2] in which an association between polycystic kidney disease and