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Renal Parenchymal and Inflammatory Diseases

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Radiological Imaging of the Kidney

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Renal parenchymal diseases may be characterized by gray-scale and color and power Doppler ultrasound (US). The most typical appearance of renal parenchymal diseases on gray-scale US is a diffuse increase in echogenicity of parenchyma of both kidneys with an increased or a reduced visibility of renal pyramids. Color and power Doppler analysis of intrarenal flows may reveal an increase in the resistive index value (>0.7). Even though gray-scale and Doppler US provide morphological and functional evaluations of renal parenchymal diseases, they do not present high specificity and sensitivity in the characterization of the different renal parenchyma disease.

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Quaia, E. (2010). Renal Parenchymal and Inflammatory Diseases. In: Quaia, E. (eds) Radiological Imaging of the Kidney. Medical Radiology(). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-87597-0_13

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