The spectrum of angiographic findings in transitional cell carcinoma of the kidney.

Renal angiography was performed in 20 patients with histologically proven transitional cell carcinomas of the kidney at Wayne County General Hospital, The University of Michigan Medical Center, and Ann Arbor St. Joseph Mercy Hospital between 1967 and 1975. In addition to conventional angiograms, six patients had pharmacoangiographic studies, four with epmephrine and two with Priscoline. There were 16 men and four women, with an average age of 59 years (range 21 to 89 years). All twenty patients had intravenous urograms; a diagnosis of transitional cell carcinoma could be made with ahigh level of confidence in ten. In an additional six patients the intravenous urogram revealed a nonfunctioning kidney. In the patients with nonfunctioning kidneys, retrograde urograms gave the diagnosis in the four patients in whom it was done.