SONOGRAPHY OF KIDNEY Flashcards
(17 cards)
MEASUREMENTS
2-3 CM IN ANTEROPOSTERIOR
4-5 CM IN WIDTH
8-13CM IN LENGTH
ECHOGENICITY COMPARED TO LIVER AND SPLEEN
ISOECHOIC OR HYPOECHOIC TO LIVER AND SPLEEN
CORTEX MEASUREMENT
1CM IN THICKNESS FROM OUTER MARGIN TO THE RENAL PYRAMIDS
COMPENSATORY HYPERTROPHY
ENLARGEMENT OF UNAFFECTED CONTRALATERAL KIDNEY W/ UNILATERAL RENAL AGENESIS OR COMPROMISED RENAL FUNCTION
DROMEDARY HUMP
BULDGE IN LATERAL BORDER OF THE KIDNEY (OFTEN LEFT K). SAME ECHOGENICITY AS ADJACENT RENAL CORTEX
DUPLEX COLLECTING SYSTEM
IN THIS VARIANT THERE ARE 2 SEPARATE RENAL SINUSES. REFERRED TO AS UPPER POLE MOIETY AND LOWER POLE MOIETY. OBSTRUCTION OF ONE OR BOTH CAN OCCUR, 2 URETERS DRAIN SEPARATE PORTIONS OF THE KIDNEY.
KINDNEY WILL MEASURE LONGER THAN NORMAL SIZE KIDNEY
ECTOPIC KIDNEY
PELVIC - ONE OR BOTH KID. MAY BE LOCATED WITHIN THE PELVIS.
CROSSED FUSED ECTOPIA- BOTH KID ARE FUSED ON THE SAME SIDE OF THE BODY.
THORACIC KID - SITS PARTIALLY OR COMPLETELY IN THE CHEST
EXTRARENAL PELVIS
THE RENAL PELVIS IS LOCATED OUSIDE OF THE HILUM
FETAL LOBULATION
LOBULATED OR BUMPY OUTLINE OF KID
HORSESHOE KID
2 KID THAT CROSS THE MIDLINE AND CONNECT AT THEIR LOWER POLES BY AN ISTHMUS.
THE ISTHMUS OF THE HORSESHOE KID TRAVELS ANTERIOR TO AORTA AND IVC
HYPERTROPHIC COLUMN OF BERTIN
ENLARGEMENT OF RENAL COLUMN SEEN AS INDENTATION OF RENAL SINUS
JUNCTIONAL PARENCHYMAL DEFECT
RESULTS FROM INCOPLETE FUSION.
APPEARS AS HYPERECHOIC, WEDGE SHAPE STRUCTURE ON THE ANTERIOR PORTION OF THE KID; LOCATED BETWEEN UPPER AND MIDDLE SECTION OF THE KID
MALROTATED KID
IN RENAL FOSSA BUT OFF OF THE NORMAL AXIS
RENAL AGENESIS
CONGENITAL ABSENCE OF THE KID
B/L RENAL AGENESIS IS NOT CONSISTENT WITH LIFE
RENAL HYPOPLASIA
UNDERDEVELOPMENT OF KID. TOO FEW NEPHRONS.
KID WILL BE SMALLER THAN NORMAL
RENAL SINIS LIPOMATOSIS
EXCESSIVE FAT W/IN THE RENAL PELVIS.
RENAL SINUS WILL BE LARGE AND ECHOGENIC
SUPERNUMERY KID
A 3RD SMALLER KID
