
Periureteral inferior vena caval venous ring presenting as urinary obstruction
Author(s) -
Suprava Naik,
Arashdeep Singh,
Sudipta Mohakud,
Nerbadyswari Deep
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
indian journal of urology/indian journal of urology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.333
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 1998-3824
pISSN - 0970-1591
DOI - 10.4103/iju.iju_98_17
Subject(s) - medicine , inferior vena cava , ureter , vascular anomaly , urinary system , radiology , upper urinary tract , anatomy , surgery
The embryological development of the inferior vena cava (IVC) is complex, and thus the vena cava may undergo a large number of congenital anomalies. Periureteric venous ring is a rare developmental anomaly of IVC where the right ureter passes through a slit-like opening in a partially duplicated infrarenal IVC, resulting in dilatation of upper urinary tract. Split-bolus multidetector computed tomography technique is useful in detecting such vascular anomaly causing ureteric obstruction as it can clearly show the vascular and ureteric phase in a single acquisition.