[Ultrasonography and surgical complications after kidney transplants]

The authors conducted a retrospective analysis of 28 case-reports of patients with kidney transplants who had been investigated by ultrasonography. The most representative cases in the 8 patients in whom this examination revealed the presence of surgical complications are described. They included three cases of urinoma, in one case with associated obstruction, two patients with lymphoceles, one of whom had obstruction, and one case each of perirenal hematoma, perirenal abscess, and an arteriovenous fistula following needle biopsy.