Intravenous urography and imaging of the urinary tract.
This article briefly reviews the commonly used radiological investigations of the renal tract. The intravenous urogram (IVU) is a widely available imaging technique and one of the first-line investigations, yet is often poorly understood by junior medical teams. This article therefore discusses the IVU in detail, and reviews the common pathologies seen using this technique.
Department of Radiology, Weston General Hospital, Weston-super-Mare.
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D006801:Humans; D007669:Kidney Calculi / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D007674:Kidney Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D007680:Kidney Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Q000379:methods; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014463:Ultrasonography; D014551:Urinary Tract / Q000002:abnormalities; D014567:Urography / Q000379:methods*