1) Medical diagnostics center «Raduga», Chelyabinsk, Russia;
2) Urology department, Federal State-Funded Educational Institution of Higher Education, Yekaterinburg State Medical University, Yekaterinburg, Russia
The article provides a brief description of the main terms and concepts of kidney damage used in forensic medicine and urology, with a list of requirements for the description and formation of a clinical diagnosis when maintaining primary medical documentation. The importance of a unified approach in objective interpretation in the expert assessment of kidney injuries is substantiated.