Renal pelvis: funnel-shaped portion of the ureter in the kidney; Hilum: a section that is the entry point to the kidney for the renal veins, renal arteries, and ureter; At the tip of each nephron is a small sac of capillaries called the glomerulus. There, under tight pressure, materials are constantly being filtered out of the blood.
Nemours Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children in Wilmington, DE is ranked nationally in 6 pediatric specialties. Nemours Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children is a 196-bed children's general facility with 8,798 admissions in the most recent year reported. It performed 2,712 annual inpatient and 9,029 outpatient surgeries. Its emergency room had 51,829 visits.
Loma Linda University Medical Center, located next door to the Children's Hospital, can offer proton radiation treatment on site. Proton radiation is so precise that doctors can target the radiation directly at the diseased site with almost no damage to the surrounding healthy tissue.