title: Three-dimensional CT stereoscopic visualization of renal masses: impact on diagnosis and patient treatment.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The objective of this study was to determine whether three-dimensional reconstruction with stereoscopic display of helical CT data sets and CT angiography are useful in the examination of patients with known or suspected renal masses.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Volume-rendering techniques applied to helical CT data sets coupled with three-dimensional stereoscopic imaging provide a complete examination of patients with known or suspected renal masses. Such information can help guide patient treatment and provide a single preoperative study when nephron-sparing surgery or total nephrectomy is considered.
authors.affiliation: Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA.
authors.forename: P A
authors.initials: PA
authors.lastname: Smith
authors.forename: F F
authors.initials: FF
authors.lastname: Marshall
authors.forename: B A
authors.initials: BA
authors.lastname: Urban
authors.forename: D G
authors.initials: DG
authors.lastname: Heath
authors.forename: E K
authors.initials: EK
authors.lastname: Fishman
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000792:Angiography / Q000379:methods; D002292:Carcinoma, Renal Cell / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted; D007680:Kidney Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed / Q000379:methods*