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Upper Urinary Tract Tumors

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The tumors of the upper urinary tract include tumors developing in the renal pelvis and ureter. Transitional cell carcinomas (TCCs) of the renal pelvis or renal calices are relatively rare tumors of the kidney. Multidetector CT urography is currently considered the most sensitive and comprehensive imaging modality for the evaluation of the entire urinary tract and the detection of TCCs. TCCs may manifest as single or multiple discrete filling defects, filling defects within distended calyces, calyceal obliteration (calyceal amputation), hydronephrosis with renal enlargement caused by tumor obstruction of ureteropelvic junction, or as reduced renal function – excluded kidney – without renal enlargement caused by long-standing tumor obstruction of the ureteropelvic junction and atrophy.

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Quaia, E., Martingano, P. (2010). Upper Urinary Tract Tumors. In: Quaia, E. (eds) Radiological Imaging of the Kidney. Medical Radiology(). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-87597-0_24

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