Phantom kidney: A CT correlation
| Autor: | W. Newlon Tauxe, Martin Charron, Teruhito Mochizuki, Ajit N. Shah |
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| Rok vydání: | 1991 |
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Male Unilateral renal agenesis medicine.medical_specialty Kidney Nephrectomy Renal scintigraphy Imaging phantom Vascularity medicine Humans Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging In patient Radionuclide Imaging business.industry Organotechnetium Compounds General Medicine Postprandial medicine.anatomical_structure Technetium Tc 99m Dimercaptosuccinic Acid Radiology medicine.symptom Succimer Tomography X-Ray Computed business |
| Zdroj: | Annals of Nuclear Medicine. 5:163-165 |
| ISSN: | 1864-6433 0914-7187 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/bf03164632 |
| Popis: | The phantom kidney is a "kidney-like" apparition which may be seen in dynamic renal scintigraphy typically in post-nephrectomy patients or in patients with unilateral renal agenesis. We report a case of a phantom kidney demonstrated in the angiographic phase of renal scintigraphy with 99mTc-dimercaptosuccinic acid (99mTc-DMSA) in a patient who was nephrectomized 14 years previously. After comparison with the CT images, we conclude that our patient's finding was caused by an increased mesenteric vascularity, possibly postprandial. Several conditions which may cause the phantom kidney effect, have been reported, but increased mesenteric vascularity seems to be the most common cause. |
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