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Imaging of Urinary Tract Tumors

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Imaging in Oncology

Part of the book series: Cancer Treatment and Research ((CTAR,volume 143))

Advances in imaging have given radiology an increasingly significant role in the diagnosis, staging and re-staging of patients with urinary tract tumors. In this chapter we emphasize the value of current imaging and briefly discuss the potential applications of novel imaging techniques in the management of patients with urinary tract tumors. We will focus primarily on renal cell tumors and bladder transitional cell cancers. Multi-detector-row CT (MDCT) offers greater speed, improved spatial resolution and wider coverage, and allows screening of multiple organs in the abdomen for metastatic disease and for complications. MRI, with its superior soft tissue resolution, offers advantages in imaging some urinary tumors. Ultrasound can also play a complementary role to CT or MRI in imaging of urinary tumors. We will limit discussion of nuclear medicine techniques, but will mention the emerging role of FDG-PET and Positron Emission Tomography/CT (PET/CT) for the detection of distant metastases of several GU malignancies.

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Blake, M.A., Kalra, M.K. (2008). Imaging of Urinary Tract Tumors. In: Blake, M.A., Kalra, M.K. (eds) Imaging in Oncology. Cancer Treatment and Research, vol 143. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-75587-8_12

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