Pyelography (pyelo-ureterography) a study of the normal and pathologic anatomy of the renal pelvis and ureter . Fig. 266.—Renal tumor—polycystic kidney. the calyces, but increase in size of the true pelvis, so as tosimulate a moderate degree of hydronephrosis. Retraction of the calyces as the result of polycystic growthoccurs less frequently than with neoplasm. When it doesoccur, the retraction causes broad spaces in contrast to thenarrow streaks typical of neoplasm. At times the calyxretraction occurring in the polycystic kidney may be sobroad and irregular in outline as to suggest pyonephros
Pyelography (pyelo-ureterography) a study of the normal and pathologic anatomy of the renal pelvis and ureter . Fig. 266.—Renal tumor—polycystic kidney. the calyces, but increase in size of the true pelvis, so as tosimulate a moderate degree of hydronephrosis. Retraction of the calyces as the result of polycystic growthoccurs less frequently than with neoplasm. When it doesoccur, the retraction causes broad spaces in contrast to thenarrow streaks typical of neoplasm. At times the calyxretraction occurring in the polycystic kidney may be sobroad and irregular in outline as to suggest pyonephrosis. 282 PYELOGRAPHY The absence of pus in the urine and of inflammatory dila-tation in the outhne of the ureter, however, should excludethe inflammatory nature of the pelvic deformity. In marked deformity of the pelvic outline is visible. Thecalyces are widely retracted and broadened throughout;their outline is suggestive of pyonephrosis, but the absenceof any evidence of infection in the urine would exclude in-.
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