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- Title
Radio-Contrast Enhancement of a Urinary Tract Calculus.
- Authors
Brierly; Mostafid; Fletcher
- Abstract
We report the case of a woman who presented with obstruction and urosepsis of her left kidney secondary to small cystine calculi. The calculi could not be seen on initial plain abdominal X-ray. However, following percutaneous nephrostogram the calculi became more radio-dense and visible on later X-rays. Experimental enhancement of calculi has been described before but not in man. We presume that the contrast medium was adsorbed by the calculus to increase the radio-density. Further investigation of this phenomenon could prove useful in the management of complex radiolucent calculi.
- Subjects
CYSTATHIONINE gamma-lyase; CALCULI; URINARY calculi; URINARY organ diseases; KIDNEY diseases
- Publication
Urologia Internationalis, 1999, Vol 62, Issue 2, p127
- ISSN
0042-1138
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1159/000030375