Seven children of 21 consecutive admissions referred for management of the nephrotic syndrome were found to have congenital anomalies of the genitourinary tract. No cause and effect relationship between these struc tural anomalies and the origin or course of the nephrotic syndrome could be established, but further study of this possibility is firmly indicated.
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