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Point-of-Care Kidney and Genitourinary Ultrasound in Adults: Image Acquisition
Published on: June 21, 2024
Dystopic dysplastic kidney with ectopic ureter: improved localization by fusion of MR urography and (99m)Tc-DMSA
Michael C Kreissl1, Reinhard Lorenz, Gerd Ohnheiser
1Clinic and Polyclinic of Nuclear Medicine, University Clinic Würzburg, Josef-Scheider Strasse 2, Bau D5, 97080, Würzburg, Germany. Kreissl_m@klinik.uni-wuerzburg.de
Abstract:
We report a 12-year-old girl with a long history of constant urinary dribbling and apparently only a left kidney. Using a multimodality approach involving the fusion of MR urography and (99m)Tc-dimercaptosuccinic acid (DMSA) SPECT datasets, it was finally possible to exactly localize the very small dystopic, dysplastic right kidney and its ectopic ureter draining into the vagina.
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