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Case report: echogenic necrotic renal papillae simulating calculi
H Cheung1, P S Chan, C Metreweli
1Department of Radiology & Organ Imaging, Prince of Wales Hospital, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin.
Clinical Radiology
|July 1, 1992
Abstract:
Sloughed necrotic papillae usually show soft tissue sonographic characteristics. We report a patient who presented with septicaemia and pyonephrosis due to ureteric obstruction caused by shed necrotic papillae. These were echogenic on ultrasound, and resembled calculi.