title: Recent advances in imaging cancer of the kidney and urinary tract.
abstract: Modern radiologic imaging is an aid to treatment planning for localized renal cancer, enabling characterization of mass lesions. For patients who present with advanced renal cancer, new imaging techniques enable a functional assessment of treatment response not possible using anatomic measurements alone. Multidetector CT urography permits simultaneous assessment of the kidneys and urinary tract for patients with unexplained hematuria. Both CT and MRI play a significant role in staging and follow up of patients treated for urothelial cancer. Newer imaging methods such as diffusion-weighted MRI have shown promising results for improving accuracy of staging and follow up of urothelial cancer.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, 3400 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA. Electronic address: hiltons@uphs.upenn.edu.
authors.forename: Susan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Hilton
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, 3400 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.
authors.forename: Lisa P
authors.initials: LP
authors.lastname: Jones
mesh_terms: D002292:Carcinoma, Renal Cell / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology; D006801:Humans; D007680:Kidney Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Q000379:methods; D049268:Positron-Emission Tomography; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed / Q000379:methods; D014463:Ultrasonography; D014516:Ureteral Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology; D001749:Urinary Bladder Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology
keywords: Bladder cancer; Computed tomography; Kidney cancer; Magnetic resonance imaging; Radiologic imaging; Ultrasonography; Urinary tract cancer; Urothelial cancer