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Magnetic resonance imaging of fetal urinoma
Joel C Hutcheson1, Douglas A Canning, Ann M Hubbard
1Department of Surgery, Division of Pediatric Urology, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA.
Urology
|October 19, 2002
Abstract:
Extrarenal collections of urine have long been associated with obstructive uropathy and may preserve renal function by acting as a "popoff" valve. Although urinary extravasation manifested as urinary ascites carries a favorable prognosis, perinephric urinomas occurring prenatally are associated with poor renal function in most cases. We report the case of a baby girl with a urinoma diagnosed by fetal magnetic resonance imaging and discuss the significance of this radiologic finding.