title: Preoperative evaluation of pelvic kidney renal cell carcinoma with 64-slice CT and 3D-CT angiography.
abstract: We report a case of a 55-year-old woman, who presented with a vague pelvic pain and was found to have an ectopic pelvic kidney involved by a mass. Preoperative assessment was done by multi-slice CT and 3D-CT angiography. According to our knowledge only eight cases of pelvic kidney tumor have been reported in the literature and our case is the first report of using multi-slice CT and 3D-CT angiography in the preoperative evaluation of these cases.
authors.affiliation: Department of Urology, Al-Zahra Hospital, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran.
authors.forename: Mohammad H
authors.initials: MH
authors.lastname: Izadpanahi
authors.affiliation: Department of Urology, Al-Zahra Hospital, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran.
authors.forename: Mahmoud
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kabiri
authors.affiliation: Department of Urology, Al-Zahra Hospital, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran.
authors.forename: Hamid
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Mazdak
authors.affiliation: Department of Urology, Al-Zahra Hospital, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran.
authors.forename: Kia
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Nouri-Mahdavi
authors.affiliation: Department of Urology, Al-Zahra Hospital, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran.
authors.forename: Mohammad H
authors.initials: MH
authors.lastname: Khorrami
keywords: 3D-CT; ectopic kidney; multislice CT scan; renal cell carcinoma