Type:
Educational Exhibit
Keywords:
Trauma, Cystography / Uretrography, Fluoroscopy, Urinary Tract / Bladder
Authors:
F. J. Azpeitia Armán1, R. M. Lorente Ramos1, J. M. LÓPEZ ARCAS CALLEJA1, M. Grande Barez2, A. Blazquez Saez3, P. Torres Rubio1; 1MADRID/ES, 228031 Madrid/ES, 3Salamanca/ES
DOI:
10.26044/ecr2019/C-0734
Background
Although ultrasonography,
CT and MR are increasingly being used including voiding protocols,
retrograde urethrography and voiding cystourethrography are the modalities of choice for imaging the urethra.
It is a readily available and cost-effective examination.
In males the posterior urethra is best imaged with voiding cystourethrography and the anterior urethra by retrograde urethrography.
We present:
- Schemes of normal anatomy of the male and female urethra.
- Urethrography indications and contraindications.
- Study protocols of voiding and retrograde urethrography.
Contrast preparation,
patient positioning,
image requirements.
- Imaging findings in normal and pathological studies.
Cases presented include: congenital abnormalities,
strictures,
trauma,
urethral or periurethral tumors, calculi,
diverticula,
postsurgical complications.