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Imaging features of immune-mediated genitourinary disease

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Abstract

Purpose

Imaging features of immune-mediated genitourinary diseases often overlap, and the same disease may manifest in different ways, so understanding imaging findings in the context of the patient’s entire clinical picture is important in providing the correct diagnosis.

Methods

In this article, diseases mediated by the immune system which affect the genitourinary system are reviewed. Examples of immune-mediated genitourinary disease including IgG4-related disease, post-transplant lymphoproliferative disorder, immunodeficiency-associated lymphoproliferative disorder due to immunosuppressive and immunomodulatory medications, lymphoma, leukemia, myeloma, amyloidosis, and histiocytosis.

Results

Clinical and imaging features will be presented which may help narrow the differential diagnosis for each disease.

Conclusion

Recognition of immune-related genitourinary disease is important for appropriate medical management as they may mimic other diseases both by imaging and clinical presentation.

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  • 10 May 2019

    The original version of this article was published with a error in the initials of the first, fifth and sixth author name: Jonathon Weber, Frank Miller and Jeanne Horowitz. The correct author's initials should be Jonathon D. Weber, Frank H Miller, and Jeanne M Horowitz. It is now corrected with this correction.

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    Jonathon Weber, Nancy Hammond, Vahid Yaghmai, Paul Nikolaidis, Frank Miller & Jeanne Horowitz

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Weber, J., Hammond, N., Yaghmai, V. et al. Imaging features of immune-mediated genitourinary disease. Abdom Radiol 44, 2217–2232 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00261-019-01946-z

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