A 23-year-old Hispanic woman was referred to the urology service for long-standing right flank pain that occurred whenever she had to hold off voiding because a bathroom was not nearby and was ...

HYPERTENSION associated with unilateral renovascular disease is receiving an increasing amount of attention. The present technics for the diagnosis of unilateral renal disease are excretory urography, ...

URINARY diversion is essential for the management of certain urologic disorders of childhood. Implantation of the ureters into an isolated segment of ileum, with restoration of intestinal continuity, ...

Multidetector CT is faster and much more accurate than excretory urography in detecting urinary tract cancers and other urinary tract diseases, a new study suggests. The study reviewed 370 patients ...

An ectopic ureter has an orifice located outside the normal trigonal position. Generally, the term 'ectopic ureter' implies a more caudal insertion point than normal (e.g. in the urethra or outside ...

The split-bolus (cross sectional imaging) MDCT urography technique reduces both radiation dose and number of images produced, according to a recent study conducted by radiologists from Stanford ...

Fibroepithelial polyps (FEPs) are rare benign ureteral neoplasms of mesodermal origin. As an intrinsic cause of ureteropelvic junction obstruction (UPJO) they are very uncommon. Excretory urography ...

Cystoscopy is the reference standard for bladder cancer detection, and is also used to monitor patients with a history of the disease. The procedure is, however, invasive, and some patients find the ...