1. Volume 86, Issue 2, Pages 450-452 (August 2014)
The Case | Microhematuria in a patient with beta-thalassemia major: a casual or a causal association? 
Giorgina B. Piccoli, Simona Roggero, Agostino De Pascale, Federica N. Vigotti, Antonio Piga, Andrea Veltri 
Kidney International 
Volume 86, Issue 2, Pages (August 2014)
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2. Figure 1
Ultrasound picture with scattered punctate pattern and mild increase of echogenicity around a kidney pyramid, and a ‘cup’ image at the papillary level: see arrow. Two small parapyelic cysts are also present.
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3. Figure 2
A small kidney stone (first arrow), in the context of the scattered punctate pattern, characteristic of the early stages of nephrocalcinosis.1, 2 The second arrow is pointing at the diffuse hyperechoic ‘cup-like’ band pattern surrounding a relatively hypoechoic pyramid.
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