Types

 nonsyndromal diffuse cystic renal dysplasia

• hereditary renal adysplasia (association of a renal dysplasia and unilateral renal agenesis)

 syndromal diffuse cystic renal dysplasia

• inherited metabolic diseases
  • Zellweger syndrome (MIM.214100)
  • carnitine palmitoyltransferase deficiency (MIM.255110)
  • glutaric aciduria type 2 (MIM.231680)
  • Smith-Lemli-Opitz syndrome

• malformatives syndromes
  • Meckel syndrome (Meckel-Gruber syndrome) (MIM.249000) and Simopoulos syndrome (polycystic kidneys, internal hydrocephalus and polydactylism) (MIM.249000)
  • Goldston syndrome (renal-hepatic-pancreatic dysplasia with Dandy-Walker cyst) (MIM.267010)
  • Miranda syndrome (MIM.?)
  • Jeune syndrome
  • Majewski syndrome
  • Saldino-Noonan syndrome
  • short-rib polydactyly syndrome
  • Ellis-van Creveld syndrome
  • Elejalde syndrome
  • Roberts syndrome
  • hereditary renal adysplasia
  • nail-patella syndrome
  • tuberous sclerosis complex
  • von Hippel-Lindau syndrome
  • Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome
  • DiGeorge syndrome
  • VATER association (VATER syndrome)

 secondary diffuse cystic renal dysplasia

• trisomies (trisomy 9, trisomy 13, trisomy 18, trisomy 21)
• fetal alcohol syndrome
• diabetic embryopathy
• syndrome RSF (renal dysplasia, situs inversus totalis, multisystem fibrosis) (#1570238#, #3402978#))

See also

 renal dysplasias
 bilateral diffuse renal dysplasia

• bilateral obstructive renal dysplasia
• bilateral non-obstructive renal dysplasias

 unilateral diffuse renal dysplasia

• unilateral obstructive renal dysplasia
• unilateral multicystic renal dysplasia