| Title | Bilateral renal masses in a 10-year-old girl with renal failure and urinary tract infection: the importance of functional imaging. | | Author(s) | Urbania TH, Kammen BF, Nancarrow PA, Morrell RE | | Institution | 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. | | Source | Pediatr Radiol 2008 Nov 11. | | Abstract | 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. | | Language | ENG | | Pub Type(s) | JOURNAL ARTICLE
| | PubMed ID | 19002451 |
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