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Journal of Ultrasonography
Volume 18 (2018): Issue 73 (June 2018)
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Ultrasound screening for pyelectasis in pregnant women. Clinical necessity or “art for art’s sake”?
Piotr Szkodziak
Piotr Szkodziak
| Aug 31, 2018
Journal of Ultrasonography
Volume 18 (2018): Issue 73 (June 2018)
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Article Category:
review
Published Online:
Aug 31, 2018
Page range:
152 - 157
Received:
Jan 03, 2018
Accepted:
Jun 29, 2018
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.15557/jou.2018.0022
Keywords
pyelectasis
,
pregnancy complications
,
kidney pelvis
,
bacteriuria
,
female urogenital diseases
© 2018 Piotr Szkodziak published by Sciendo
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
Fig. 1.
Ultrasound assessment of the right kidney. Longitudinal section of the organ on the right, transverse section on the left. On both images a hypoechoic area consistent with the dilatation of the renal pelvis is visible in the middle of the central field
Fig. 2.
Ultrasound assessment of the right kidney (longitudinal section). Visible dilatation of the pelvis and major calyces
Fig. 3.
Ultrasound assessment of the right kidney (longitudinal section). Visible dilatation of the pelvis and of major and minor calyces
Fig. 4.
Three-dimensional ultrasound assessment of urine retention volume in the pelvicalyceal system. The VOCAL software has been used for volume calculations. Estimated pelvicalyceal volume = 9.95 cm3. The case presented in Fig. 1
Fig. 5.
Three-dimensional ultrasound assessment of urine retention volume in the pelvicalyceal system. The VOCAL software has been used for volume calculations. Estimated pelvicalyceal volume = 13.74 cm3. The case presented in Fig. 2
Fig. 6.
Three-dimensional ultrasound assessment of urine retention volume in the pelvicalyceal system. The VOCAL software has been used for volume calculations. Estimated pelvicalyceal volume = 32.66 cm3. The case presented in Fig. 3