The role of ultrasonography in the diagnosis of tumours of the renal pelvis

Dalla-Palma, L.; Bazzocchi, M.; Pozzi-Mucelli, R.S.; Rossi, M.; Stacul, F.; Agostini, R.; Maffessanti, M.

European Journal of Radiology 4(2): 156-160

1984


ISSN/ISBN: 0720-048X
PMID: 6734615
Document Number: 231308
The authors have evaluated 22 patients with renal pelvis tumour (RPT) by means of excretory urography and ultrasonography. Six patients also underwent arteriography. The value of the three investigations in the diagnosis of the lesion, the nature, the pyelic origin and the extension are presented. It is concluded that urography remains the method of choice for the evaluation of RPT while ultrasonography may be considered complementary to urography in cases of non-functioning kidney, when the urographic filling device defect is uncertain and in the differentiation between the pyelic or parenchymal origin of the tumour.

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