Header Logo

Polycystic Kidney Diseases

"Polycystic Kidney Diseases" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

expand / collapse MeSH information
Hereditary diseases that are characterized by the progressive expansion of a large number of tightly packed CYSTS within the KIDNEYS. They include diseases with autosomal dominant and autosomal recessive inheritance.


expand / collapse publications
This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Polycystic Kidney Diseases" by people in this website by year, and whether "Polycystic Kidney Diseases" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 13 publications over 9 distinct years, with a maximum of 3 publications in 2002 and 2004
To see the data from this visualization as text, click here.