Urography during pregnancy
Rigby, M.R.; MacEwan, D.W.
Journal of the Canadian Association of Radiologists 27(4): 227-231
1976
ISSN/ISBN: 0008-2902 PMID: 993237 Document Number: 107536
A review of 22,971 pregnancies from 1969-74 reveals that the reasons for requesting excretory urography were renal colic of pregnancy 11, pyelonephritis 8, renal contusion 2, threatened abortion 1, and suspected degeneration of fibroid 1. The final diagnoses were similar except that two patients with torsion of ovarian cysts and a renal calculus were discovered. The only intravenous pyelographic examination that was decisive for diagnosis was in a patient with a ureteric calculus. Careful clinical correlation should reduce excretory urography during pregnancy.