Open AccessPreoperative evaluation of pelvic kidney renal cell carcinoma with 64-slice CT and 3D-CT angiography
Author(s) -
Mohammad Hossein Izadpanahi,
Majid Kabiri,
Hamid Mazdak,
Kia Nouri-Mahdavi,
Mohammad Hatef Khorrami
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
advanced biomedical research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2277-9175
DOI - 10.4103/2277-9175.146376
Subject(s) - medicine , pelvic kidney , radiology , angiography , renal cell carcinoma , kidney , ectopic kidney
We report a case of a 55-year-old woman, who presented with a vague pelvic pain and was found to have an ectopic pelvic kidney involved by a mass. Preoperative assessment was done by multi-slice CT and 3D-CT angiography. According to our knowledge only eight cases of pelvic kidney tumor have been reported in the literature and our case is the first report of using multi-slice CT and 3D-CT angiography in the preoperative evaluation of these cases