Radiography is a familiar and available imaging modality for the evaluation of patients with acute abdominal distress. Potential causes for acute abdominal distress include the hepatobiliary system, spleen, urogenital tract, and gastrointestinal tract. Radiographic signs associated with specific conditions are described, including gastric-dilation volvulus, urinary bladder rupture, ureteral rup...

A case of non-septate uterus with double cervix and complete longitudinally septate vagina is described. This previously undescribed Müllerian anomaly has been detected by complete clinical and instrumental investigations (transvaginal ultrasonography, urography, hysterosalpingography, hysteroscopy and laparoscopy). Aetiological hypotheses are discussed and we suggest adding the uterovaginal ma...

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...

A double-blind comparison of meglumine iodamide and Renografin 60 (52% meglumine diatrizoate and 8% sodium diatrizoate) for bolus excretory urography was performed. Doses of 0.8 cc/kg. to a maximum of 55 cc were administered to fifty patients, twenty-five receiving each drug.There is a suggestion that iodamide may be superior to diatrizoate in pyelocalyceal opacification while being equal to di...

Excretory urography using sodium diatrizoate was performed in 144 dogs and in 14 cats clinically suspects of having urinary disorders. The purpose of the present study' is to evaluate at which time following the injection of the contrast mediun, the radiographic alterations were better visualized, making possible the diagnosis of these disorders. In this study the best visualizations were found...

A 1-month-old boy was referred to our hospital with right hydronephrosis. Excretory urography showed poor visualization of the right kidney and a filling defect in the bladder. Chromosomal analysis of peripheral blood revealed a karyotype of 49,XXXXY, and a diagnosis of 49,XXXXY Klinefelter s syndrome associated with hydronephrosis caused by intravesical ureterocele was made. 49,XXXXY Klinefelt...

Obstructive uropathy in its various forms accounts for much of the work load in urological units and general hospitals. Until recently, laboratory tests and excretion urography were the only procedures available for its assessment. The past few years have seen the development and refinement of ultrasound, examination by computer tomography, nuclear medicine, antegrade pyelography, and perfusion...

Fungus balls rarely cause upper urinary tract obstruction, and they are most often found in patients with diabetes mellitus or impaired immunity. The computed tomography (CT) findings of fungal bezoars of the urinary tract are nonspecific and have rarely been described, while in most cases, radiolucent filling defects are observed on excretory or retrograde urography. Here, an unusual case of a...