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.
The Walter Reed National Military Medical Center (WRNMMC), formerly known as the National Naval Medical Center and colloquially referred to as the Bethesda Naval Hospital, Walter Reed, or Navy Med, is a tri-service military medical center located in the community of Bethesda, Maryland, near the headquarters of the National Institutes of Health.