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.
Overview: Wake Forest Medical Center is a tertiary care center in Winston-Salem, NC serving the difficult cases that come from most of western North Carolina and some of West Virginia. It is a non-profit hospital but is not owned by the state.