Real-time ultrasonography as the primary imaging method in suspect renal pathology of adults

In the material of 253 successive patients real-time ultrasound was used instead of urography as the primary imaging method of renal diseases. Ultrasound detected a tumour more reliably and more specifically than urography and detected hydronephrosis with sufficient reliability. In cases of pyelonephritis urography was more informative than ultrasound. In 'diffuse' parenchymal diseases both methods were quite unreliable.