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The CT nephrogram: implications for evaluation of urinary tract disease.
Saunders HS, Dyer RB, Shifrin RY, Scharling ES, Bechtold RE, Zagoria RJ.
Department of Radiology, Bowman Gray School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC 27157-1088, USA.
Radiographics. 1995 Sep;15(5):1069-85; discussion 1086-8
The urographic nephrogram is an important indicator of underlying functional and structural renal disease. With expansions in use of cross-sectional imaging, the computed tomographic (CT) nephrogram (ie, contrast material enhancement within the renal parenchyma) has assumed a greater role in the evaluation of urinary tract disorders. Both quantitative and qualitative nephrographic abnormalities are well demonstrated by CT, including global or segmental absence or persistence of the nephrogram, slowed temporal progression, striated pattern, and rim pattern. Global absence is nearly always unilateral and is most often seen with blunt abdominal trauma with renal pedicle injury. Segmental absence is attributable to focal renal infarction, most likely due to arterial emboli. Global persistence, which is much more common than segmental persistence, may be unilateral (caused by renal artery stenosis, renal vein thrombosis, or urinary tract obstruction) or bilateral (due to systemic hypotension, intratubular obstruction, or abnormalities in tubular function). Striated nephrograms may be unilateral or bilateral and are caused by ureteric obstruction, acute pyelonephritis, contusion, renal vein thrombosis, tubular obstruction, hypotension, and autosomal recessive polycystic kidney disease. The rim pattern is most often associated with renal infarction and occasionally with acute tubular necrosis and renal vein thrombosis. Careful evaluation of the CT nephrogram is an integral part of the abdominal CT examination.
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Department of Radiology, Bowman Gray School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC 27157-1088, USA.
Radiographics. 1995 Sep;15(5):1069-85; discussion 1086-8
The urographic nephrogram is an important indicator of underlying functional and structural renal disease. With expansions in use of cross-sectional imaging, the computed tomographic (CT) nephrogram (ie, contrast material enhancement within the renal parenchyma) has assumed a greater role in the evaluation of urinary tract disorders. Both quantitative and qualitative nephrographic abnormalities are well demonstrated by CT, including global or segmental absence or persistence of the nephrogram, slowed temporal progression, striated pattern, and rim pattern. Global absence is nearly always unilateral and is most often seen with blunt abdominal trauma with renal pedicle injury. Segmental absence is attributable to focal renal infarction, most likely due to arterial emboli. Global persistence, which is much more common than segmental persistence, may be unilateral (caused by renal artery stenosis, renal vein thrombosis, or urinary tract obstruction) or bilateral (due to systemic hypotension, intratubular obstruction, or abnormalities in tubular function). Striated nephrograms may be unilateral or bilateral and are caused by ureteric obstruction, acute pyelonephritis, contusion, renal vein thrombosis, tubular obstruction, hypotension, and autosomal recessive polycystic kidney disease. The rim pattern is most often associated with renal infarction and occasionally with acute tubular necrosis and renal vein thrombosis. Careful evaluation of the CT nephrogram is an integral part of the abdominal CT examination.
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