The Roentgen Diagnosis of Lesions of the Lower Urinary Tract

Abstract

IN the roentgen diagnosis of lesions of the upper urinary tract, clinical and. laboratory findings admittedly should be given full consideration. In practice, however, it at times is expedient to give a preliminary report of the radiographic examination before all data become available. It is, therefore, necessary that the radiologist be thoroughly familiar with the appearance of lesions likely to be encountered. Our purpose is to review the radiographic appearance of kidney lesions as revealed by retrograde pyelograms. For this study we have selected 432 consecutive cases in which a pathologic diagnosis was made. These diagnoses were arrived at only after correlation of the clinical, laboratory, and radiographic examinations. Only adult patients on whom retrograde pyelograms were made are included in this series. Infection Infection heads the list in frequency of all lesions of the upper urinary tract. A diagnosis of pyelitis, pyelonephritis, or pyonephrosis was made 95 times in our series of 432 cases. ...