Spontaneous perirenal and subcapsular haematoma – report of 5 cases

Spontaneous perirenal and subcapsular haemorrhage is a rare but important clinical condition and is often diagnostically very challenging. The appropriate treatment of these patients is based on making a fast and correct diagnosis of subcapsular and perirenal haemorrhage. Clinical symptoms are often non-specific and misleading and the radiological methods, based on ultrasound (US) and CT imaging are crucial in making the correct diagnosis. Diagnosing the haematoma itself, its extent and location is rather simple with mentioned imaging modalities, but determining the source of bleeding and defining the underlying pathological condition that caused the bleeding is more complex task. As sometimes the aetiology of the bleeding Radiol Oncol 2004; 38(3): 171-5.