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Urinary Tract Obstruction and Infection

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Imaging plays an important role in the evaluation of patients with acute and chronic urinary tract obstruction. The cause of obstruction varies greatly with the patient population and the geographic locale. In a series reporting on percutaneous nephrostomy drainage, urinary obstruction was related to calculus disease in 26% of patients and to malignancy in 61%. Carcinoma of the bladder, cervix, and colon were the most common primaries in patients with malignancies and urinary obstruction [1].

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  1. Department of Radiology, University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA

    Parvati Ramchandani

  2. Department of Radiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA

    Julia R. Fielding

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  1. Radiology, University Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland

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  3. Nuclear Medicine, University Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland

    G. K. Von Schulthess

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Ramchandani, P., Fielding, J.R. (2010). Urinary Tract Obstruction and Infection. In: Hodler, J., Zollikofer, C.L., Von Schulthess, G.K. (eds) Diseases of the Abdomen and Pelvis 2010–2013. Springer, Milano. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-1637-8_15

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