DISEASES OF THE RENAL TUBULES IN CHILDHOOD

As indicated in the preceding sections of this review, it seems evident that renal diabetes insipidus, renal glycosuria, "cystinuria" and renal hyperchloremic acidosis are unquestionably renal tubular diseases. Vitamin D resistant rickets has tentatively been placed in the same category although it is recognized that the evidence for this classification is not yet thoroughly convincing. All of the findings of the Fanconi syndrome seem actually to represent a summation of the single tubular diseases, except "cystinosis." Known renal tubular dysfunction fails to explain the cystine-storage disease, cystinosis.