Introduction: We aim to report, from three observations, the diagnostic difficulties and complications, and ensure the management of pelvic kidney in women at childbearing age in the Urology Department of the National General Referral Hospital of N’Djamena. Pelvic kidney is due to an abnormality of the migration that can be associated or not with a malrotation. Its symptomatology is not specifi...

We present a case of vaginal ectopic ureter with ipsilateral partial duplication of the upper ureter (Y-type ureter), ipsilateral hypoplastic pelvic kidney and bicornuate uterus in a 20-year-old woman who presented with mild urinary incontinence since infancy. Ultrasonography, computed tomography and intravenous pyelography examination showed a left kidney with no evidence of a right kidney. Cy...

A 4-year-old girl presented with progressive distension of the abdomen and bowing of the legs (genu valgum) since birth. She was anemic, with a blood pressure of 180/110 mmHg. The serum level of creatinine was 1.7 mg/dL. She had hypocalcemia, and elevated serum level of phosphorous and parathyroid hormones. Ultrasonography revealed bilateral grossly hydronephrotic kidneys with thinned out paren...

Farzaneh Sharifiaghdas, MD Shahid Labbafinejad Medical Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran Tel/Fax: +98 21 2258 8016 E-mail: [email protected] CASE PRESENTATION A 59-year-old man presented with non-specific right flank pain two years earlier. Ultrasonography and intravenous urography revealed right staghorn renal calculi. Thereafter, he underwent right op...

Thoracic kidney is a rare type of renal ectopia. Patients with thoracic kidneys are usually asymptomatic and the condition is usually discovered incidentally during radiological evaluation for other conditions or during thoracic surgery. An intravenous urography done for a thirty-eight year old man referred on account of a seemingly small right kidney on an abdominal ultrasound scan, showed a n...

A 46 year old white woman with active systemic lupus erythematosus developed a skin rash 8 hours after intravenous urography with the non-ionic contrast medium iopamidol. Severe Stevens-Johnson syndrome with erythema multiforme, intrahepatic cholestasis, pulmonary infiltrates and acute renal failure ensued, leading to her death. Although non-ionic contrast media are generally less toxic than tr...

OBJECTIVE To compare ultrasonography with intravenous urography in the investigation of adults with haematuria. DESIGN Prospective study entailing the examination of all patients with both investigations concurrently. The investigations were performed independently on routine lists by different duty radiologists. Each was aware of the details of the request form but not of the findings of the...

CT abdomen without and with IV contrast 9 Either CT or MRI is appropriate. Use thinsection CT. ☢☢☢☢ MRI abdomen without and with IV contrast 8 Either CT or MRI is appropriate. O US kidney retroperitoneal with duplex Doppler 8 O Biopsy renal mass 5 Varies MRI abdomen without IV contrast 3 This procedure can be useful to characterize simple cysts. O Arteriography kidney 1 ☢☢☢ X-ray intravenous ur...

We report a case of supernumerary kidney associated with horseshoe malformation. A 35-year-old man presented complaining of vague and intermittent left flank pain from few months ago. Ultrasonography of urinary tract showed bilateral hydronephrosis and was suggestive of the horseshoe anomaly. Further evaluation with Intravenous urography showed three renal moieties consisting of a horseshoe kid...

The focus of this document is on image quality as one of the factors fundamental for the diagnostic process. With the rising number of procedures and the trend towards more complicated examinations, urinary tract investigations was chosen in this work as a good clinical model for evaluation of the factors influencing image quality and of the ways of evaluating image quality. In paper I, a metho...