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Imaging of Genitourinary Emergencies

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Nontraumatic urinary tract emergencies include acute obstructive uropathy, infections which can become complicated, and acute renovascular abnormalities. Imaging plays an important role in evaluating the extent of the acute process and the location and in differentiating urinary tract emergencies from other acute conditions which may be clinical mimics.

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  1. Department of Radiology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, 330 Brookline Avenue, Boston, MA, 02215, USA

    Robin Levenson MD & Mai-Lan Ho MD

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  1. Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Museum Way 10, Cambridge, 02141, Massachusetts, USA

    Ajay Singh

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Levenson, R., Ho, ML. (2013). Imaging of Genitourinary Emergencies. In: Singh, A. (eds) Emergency Radiology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9592-6_7

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