Bilateral renal masses in a 10-year-old girl with renal failure and urinary tract infection: the importance of functional imaging.
Renal sonography is a routine step in the evaluation of new onset renal failure. When renal masses are discovered in this setting, functional imaging may be critical. We report a case of bilateral renal masses in a girl with urinary tract infection and renal insufficiency found to have vesicoureteral reflux. Renal scintigraphy revealed these masses to be the only remaining functional renal tissue, preventing potentially harmful resection.
Urbania
Thomas H
TH
Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, 505 Parnassus Ave., Box 0628, San Francisco, CA, 94143, USA. thomas.urbania@radiology.ucsf.edu
Kammen
Bamidele F
BF
Nancarrow
Paul A
PA
Morrell
Rose Ellen
RE
D002648:Child; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D011866:Radioisotope Renography / Q000379:methods*; D051437:Renal Insufficiency / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D014552:Urinary Tract Infections / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis*; D014718:Vesico-Ureteral Reflux / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*