Renal Sonography

Renal Sonography by Francis S. Weill, Edmond Bihr, Paul Rohmer, Francois Zeltner.

Renal sonography forms a basic part of routine diagnostic strategy. This textbook summarizes eighteen years of experience in diagnostic ultrasound. We want it to serve as a guide to both imagers and mere consumers of information. That is why we shall emphasize practical advice and diagnostic pitfall...

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Main Authors: Weill, Francis S. (Author), Bihr, Edmond (Author), Rohmer, Paul (Author), Zeltner, Francois (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 1987.
Edition:2nd ed. 1987.
Series:Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Radiology.
Nephrology.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1 Echoanatomy: Tissue Echopatterns
  • 1.1 The Kidney Itself
  • 1.2 The Kidney as a Part of the Retroperitoneal Compartment
  • 1.3 Less Direct Renal Relationships
  • 1.4 Basic Tissue Echopatterns: Pitfalls and Artifacts
  • 2 Examination Techniques
  • 2.1 Technical Data
  • 2.2 Technological Prospects
  • 2.3 Technical Factors of Image Quality
  • 2.4 Positioning and Scanning Directions
  • 2.5 Particular Problems
  • 2.6 General Management of Ultrasonic Examinations
  • 3 Hydronephrosis
  • 3.1 Beginning Hydronephrosis
  • 3.2 Frank Hydronephrosis
  • 3.3 Major Hydronephrosis
  • 3.4 Differential Diagnosis
  • 3.5 Ureteral Dilatation
  • 3.6 Complementary Pelvic Examination
  • 3.7 Renal Lithiasis
  • 4 Renal Cysts
  • The Renal Cystic Pattern
  • 4.1 Benign Cysts
  • 4.2 Polycystic Processes
  • 5 Renal Tumors
  • 5.1 Malignant Tumors
  • 5.2 Benign Tumors
  • 5.3 Differential Diagnosis
  • 6 Evaluation of Tumoral Spread: The Retroperitoneal Space
  • 6.1 Direct Spread
  • 6.2 Lymphatic Spread
  • 6.3 Intracaval Extension
  • 6.4 Metastatic Spread
  • 6.5 Clinical and Radiological Policy
  • 6.6 Particular Cases
  • 7 Infections and Inflammatory Processes
  • 7.1 Abscesses
  • 7.2 Bacterial Nephritides
  • 7.3 Pyonephrosis
  • 7.4 Tuberculosis
  • 7.5 Differential Diagnosis of Chronic Inflammatory Processes
  • 7.6 Chronic Pyelonephritis
  • 7.7 Nephrocalcinosis, Papillary Necrosis, and Cortical Necrosis
  • 7.9 Postnephrectomy Abscesses
  • 8 Hunchbacks, Dwarfs, and Giants
  • 8.1 Horseshoe Kidneys
  • 8.2 Miscellaneous Anomalies
  • 8.3 Absence of Kidney; Ectopic Kidneys
  • 8.4 Renal Hypoplasia
  • 8.5 Nephromegaly
  • 8.6 Abnormalities of Vascular Origin
  • 8.7 The Transplanted Kidney
  • 8.8 Ultrasound in Renal Failure — Anuria
  • 9 Ultrasonic Differential Diagnosis and Diagnostic Policies: Synopsis
  • 10 Renal Trauma and Juxtarenal Collections, Traumatic and Nontraumatic
  • 10.1 Examination Procedure in the Traumatized Patients
  • 10.2 Renal Lesions
  • 10.3 Juxtarenal Abnormalities
  • 10.4 Traumatic Urinomas (Uriniferous Cysts) and Nontraumatic
  • 10.5 Associated Lesions
  • 10.6 Radiological Policy
  • 11 Adrenals
  • 11.1 The Normal Adrenal
  • 11.2 The Pathological Adrenal
  • 11.3 Diagnosis
  • 11.4 Reliability and Diagnostic Policy
  • 12 Lower Urinary Tract
  • 12.1 Bladder
  • 12.2 Prostate
  • 12.3 Testis and Its Covering
  • References.

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