Author(s):
1. Murat Uçar:
Department of Urology, Alanya Alaaddin Keykubat University School of Medicine, Antalya, Turkey
2. Ozkan Özen:
Department of Radiology, Alanya Alaaddin Keykubat University School of Medicine,Antalya,Turkey
Abstract:
Objective: To investigate the relationship between numerical values obtained using computed tomography (CT) in stone-related urinary obstruction and the duration of obstruction. Study Design: Cross-sectional study. Place and Duration of Study: Department of Urology, Alanya Alaaddin Keykubat University, Turkey, from January 2018 to September 2019. Methodology: Eighty-three patients were investigated. Commencement of obstruction was de ned as time of onset of pain. Cases with less than seven days elapsed between onset of obstruction; and CT were classi ed as acute obstruction; and those with durations of seven days or more as chronic obstruction. Bilateral renal parenchymal and renal fatty tissue densities were measured in three planes. Results: Acute obstruction was present in 53 patients and chronic obstruction in 30. Median renal parenchymal densities in the obstructive and non-obstructive kidneys were 33 and 37 Houns eld unit (HU), respectively; and median perirenal densities were 99 and 108 HU, the di erences being statistically signi cant (p 0.05). Conclusions: A low perirenal density on CT indicated prolonged duration of urinary obstruction.
Page(s):
678-682
DOI:
DOI not available
Published:
Journal: Journal of College of Physicians and Surgeons--Pakistan : JCPSP, Volume: 30, Issue: 7, Year: 2020
Keywords:
Computed tomography
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Kidney Stone
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Ureter
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Ureteral stone
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Houns eld unit
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