[Diagnostic value of computerized axial tomography in urology]

A study is made of the diagnostic value of computerized axial tomographies in 57 patients suffering from urogenital pathology. Only three mistakes which may be attributed to a wrong assessment of the sections support its high degree of reliability. The CAT does not replace the intravenous urography. With regard to other more aggressive means (angiography, endoscopy) or less determining ones (isotopes, ultrasounds), it establishes some stricter indications for the same. The main indications of the CAT in Urology are the study of non-cystic, kidney masses as well as non-functioning kidneys, retroperitoneum and suprarenal glands and finally the establishment of the tumoural stage of prostate, bladder and testicle neoformations. The future of the CAT offers great possibilities as certain technical problems are solved and at the same time as greater experience is gained and its price reduced, all of which constitute factors which currently limit its clinical use.