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Urinary Tract Obstruction and Infection

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Diseases of the Abdomen and Pelvis 2014–2017

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Imaging plays an important role in evaluating patients with both acute and chronic urinary tract obstruction. The cause of obstruction varies greatly with patient population and geographic locale. In a series reporting on percutaneous nephrostomy drainage, urinary obstruction was related to calculus disease in 26% of patients and malignancy in 61%. Carcinoma of the bladder, cervix, and colon were the most common primaries in patients with malignancies and urinary obstruction [1]. Enlarged retroperitoneal and pelvic lymph nodes due to various malignancies, including lymphoma and testicular cancer, can also lead to secondary obstruction.

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  1. Genitourinary Radiology, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA

    Parvati Ramchandani

  2. Department of Radiology, Neuroradiology, and Nuclear Medicine, Institute of Diagnostic, Interventional, and Pediatric Radiology, Inselspital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

    Harriet C. Thoeny

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  1. Radiology, University Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland

    J. Hodler

  2. Nuclear Medicine, University Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland

    G. K. von Schulthess

  3. Radiology, Kantonsspital, Baden, Switzerland

    R. A. Kubik-Huch

  4. Kilchberg/Zurich, Switzerland

    Ch. L. Zollikofer

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Ramchandani, P., Thoeny, H.C. (2014). Urinary Tract Obstruction and Infection. In: Hodler, J., von Schulthess, G.K., Kubik-Huch, R.A., Zollikofer, C.L. (eds) Diseases of the Abdomen and Pelvis 2014–2017. Springer, Milano. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-5659-6_18

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