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...

Congenital anomalies of the kidney and ureter are a significant cause of morbidity in foetus, neonate, infancy and adulthood. Radiological investigations provide a foundation for diagnosing these conditions giving vital clinical information. Various imaging modalities used to diagnose these anomalies are intravenous urography (IVU), voiding cystourethrogram (VCUG), Computed tomography (CT), Mag...

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...

Anatomical renal anomalies are one of the most commonly occurring renal anomalies. Most of these anomalies require series of investigations for the proper diagnosis. We tried to compare the results of conventional radiological investigations with magnetic resonance urography in the diagnosis of complex renal anomalies. Materials and methods: This was a prospective study done over a period of fi...