*RENAL IMAGING INTERPRETATION* 1. FOCALLY INCREASED FLOW-ABSCESS -ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION -FOCAL PYELONEPHRITIS -GASTRIC ACTIVITY SIMULATING A MASS -HAMARTOMA -MALIGNANT RENAL TUMOR, PRIMARY OR METASTATIC (E.G., HYPERNEPHROMA) -PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA SIMULATING RENAL MASS -PROMINENT SPLEEN IN NORMAL PATIENT -TUBEROUS SCLEROSIS -UNILATERAL AGENESIS WITH SPLEEN SIMULATING MASS -UTERUS/MENSTRUATION IN TRANSPLANT PATIENT 2.FOCALLY DECREASED FLOW -ABSCESS -CYST (SIMPLE, HYDATID, MULTILOCULAR, POLYCYSTIC DISEASE) -HEMATOMA -INFARCT -NECROTIC NEOPLASM (E.G., HYPERNEPHROMA, WILMS) 3. BODY-BACKGROUND DEFECTS IN RENAL TRANSPLANT -ABSCESS -BOWEL, AIR, FLUID, OR BARIUM FILLED -CORTICAL NECROSIS -FULL URINARY BLADDER (EARLY) -HEMATOMA -HYDRONEPHROSIS -LYMPHOCELE -MOCK LESIONS BETWEEN MAJOR BLOOD VESSELS AND VASCULAR STRUCTURES (EARLY) -NON-PERFUSED KIDNEY (E.G., ARTERIAL THROMBOSIS, SEVERE REJECTION) -URINOMA 4. UNILATERAL RENAL ENLARGEMENT -COMPENSATORY HYPERTROPHY -CYST (SIMPLE, MULTICYSTIC, POLYCYSTIC DISEASE) -DUPLICATED PELVOCALYCEAL SYSTEM -HYDRONEPHROSIS -IDIOPATHIC -NEOPLASM (E.G., HYPERNEPHROMA, METASTASIS, ANGIOMYOLIPOMA) -RENAL VEIN THROMBOSIS 5. BILATERAL RENAL ENLARGEMENT -BILATERAL DUPLICATION OF THE PELVOCALYCEAL SYSTEM -BILATERAL HYDRONEPHROSIS -PROLIFERATIVE/NECROTIZING/INFLAMMATORY DISORDERS ACUTE GLOMERULONEPHRITIDES ACUTE INTERSTITIAL NEPHRITIS ALLERGIC ANGIITIS DIABETIC GLOMERULOSCLEROSIS GOODPASTURE'S NODOSA SCHONELEIN-HENOCH PURPURA SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSIS THROMBOTIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA WEGENER'S GRANULOMATOSIS -POLYCYSTIC RENAL DISEASE 6. UNILATERAL DECREASE IN RENAL SIZE -CONGENITAL HYPOPLASTIC OR DYSPLASTIC KIDNEY -POSTINFLAMMATORY ATROPHY -POSTOBSTRUCTIVE ATROPHY -RENAL ARTERY STENOSIS (E.G., ARTERIOSCLEROSIS, FIBROMUSCULAR DYSPLASIA, THROMBOSIS) 7. BILATERAL DECREASE IN RENAL SIZE -ARTERIOLAR NEPHROSCLEROSIS -BILATERAL RENAL ARTERY STENOSIS (E.G., ATHEROSCLEROSIS, FIBROMUSCULAR DYSPLASIA) -CHRONIC GLOMERULONEPHRITIS -POSTINFLAMMATORY ATROPHY -POSTOBSTRUCTIVE ATROPHY 8. NON-VISUALIZATION OF ONE KIDNEY -MULTICYSTIC KIDNEY -NEOPLASM -OBSTRUCTIVE UROPATHY -POSTNEPHRECTOMY -RENAL ARTERY OCCLUSION (E.G., THROMBOSIS, TRAUMA, STENOSIS) -RENAL VEIN OCCLUSION (E.G., THROMBOSIS, TUMOR) 9. SPACE-OCCUPYING LESIONS -ABSCESS -BENIGN TUMOR (E.G., HAMARTOMA, ADENOMA) -CALCULUS -CYST (E.G., SIMPLE, HYDATID, MULTILOCULAR) -EXTRINSIC MASS (E.G., PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA, GALLBLADDER) -HEMATOMA -HYDRONEPHROSIS -INFARCT -MALROTATION -METASTASES (E.G., LUNG, LYMPHOMA) -MULTICYSTIC DISEASE -POLYCYSTIC DISEASE -POSITION-RELATED FALSE POSITIVE -PRIMARY MALIGNANT TUMOR (E.G., HYPERNEPHROMA, WILMS') -PYELONEPHRITIS (ACUTE, CHRONIC, XANTHOGRANULOMATOUS) -RADIATION -RENAL PSEUDOTUMOR -RENAL SINUS LIPOMATOSIS -TUBEROUS SCLEROSIS (ANGIOMYLIPOMAS) 10. PERSISTENT URETERAL ACTIVITY -BLIND-ENDING URETERAL DUPLICATION -LOCALIZED URINARY RUPTURE (E.G., TUMOR OBSTRUCTION) -PHYSIOLOGIC -URETERAL DIVERTICULUM -URETERAL OBSTRUCTION -URINARY FISTULA POSTTRANSPLANT 11. RIM SIGN (INCREASED RIM OF ACTIVITY SURROUNDING PHOTOPENIA) -TRANSPLANT REJECTION -HEMATOMA -RENAL VEIN THROMBOSIS -SEVER HYDRONEPHROSIS -MULTICYSTIC KIDNEY 12. DTPA UPTAKE OUTSIDE THE GENITOURINARY SYSTEM -BREAST CARCINOMA -GOODPASTURE'S SYNDROME (PULMONARY) -GRAVES' DISEASE (OPHTHALMOPATHY AND PRETIBIAL EDEMA) -INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE -NEUROFIBROMA -SOFT-TISSUE SARCOMA -SPLEEN DUE TO CONTIGUOUS INFLAMMATION -UTERINE LEIOMYOMA 13. FLATTENED HIPPURAN RENOGRAM -CHRONIC RENAL DISEASE (E.G., GLOMERULONEPHRITIS, DIABETES NEPHROPATHY) -CYST -DEHYDRATION -HYPOVOLEMIA -OBSTRUCTION (ESP. WITH PARENCHYMAL DAMAGE) -PYELONEPHRITIS -REJECTION -RENAL ARTERY STENOSIS -TUMOR 14. CONTINUALLY RISING HIPPURAN RENOGRAM -ACUTE TUBULAR NECROSIS -CONGENITAL DILATION OF COLLECTING SYSTEM -CORTICAL NECROSIS -DEHYDRATION -OBSTRUCTION -REJECTION -RENAL ARTERY STENOSIS 15. PHANTOM KIDNEY (POSTNEPHRECTOMY OR AGENESIS) LEFT -FREE RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL IN STOMACH -MESENTERIC VESSELS -SPLEEN RIGHT -DUODENUM -LIVER -MALPOSITION OF JEJUNUM 16. PHOTOPENIC DEFECT IN A TRANSPLANTED KIDNEY -ABSCESS -CYST -DILATED COLLECTING SYSTEM -HEMATOMA -INFARCT -PYELONEPHRITIS 17. BLADDER DEFORMITY -ENLARGED PROSTATE -FOLEY BALLOON * URINARY-USEFUL TIPS * *URINARY CLINICAL APPLICATIONS* * URINARY SYSTEM * |