Kidneys Flashcards
Fetal lobulation vs scarring
Lobulation: Renal surface indentation overlie the space between the pyramids.
Scarring: Renal surface indentation overlie the medullary pyramids.
Dromedary hump affects which side?
Left side.
Re Renal agenesis:
Unilateral vs bilateral:
Unilateral: Female: Gynae anomaly eg unicornuate uterus
Male: Agenesis of epididymus/ VD/ SV cyst
Bilateral: Potter sequence
Define Potter sequence:
Insult (eg ACE I’s) –> Renal agenesis–> Pulmonary hypoplasia
Define Mayer Rokitansky Kuster Hauser
Mullerian duct anomalies including the absence or atresia of the uterus.
Associated with unilateral renal agenesis.
What sign is used to differentiate surgical absent vs congenital absence of adrenals.
Pancake adrenal sign or lying down adrenal.
What are the complications of horseshoe kidney?
- Injury
- UPJ obstruction
- Recurrent infection
- Recurrent stones
- Wilm’s tumour- 8x more common
- TCC from all those UTI’s
- Renal carcinoid
What syndrome are associated with horseshoe kidney:
Turner syndrome and renal carcinoid.
What type of bone metastases in RCC?
ALWAYS Lytic bone mets
RF for RCC:
Smoking
Syndromes like VHL
Chronic dialysis > 3 years
Family history
What sort of liver mets RCC produce?
Hypervascular mets
What makes a lesion highly suspicious for RCC?
- Contrast enhancement >15 HU
2. Calcification in a fatty mass lesion. - CLEAR CELL type, can produce fatty liver metastases.
What are the 4 subtypes of RCC?
- Clear cell
- Papillary
- Medullary
- Chromophobe
Which subtype of RCC is associated with Sickle cell trait?
Medullary
Which subtype of RCC is associated with Birt Hogg Dube?
Chromophobe
Which subtype of RCC is associated with VHL:
Clear cell
What is the DDx for T2 dark renal mass/cystic lesions?
- Papillary RCC
- Haemorrhagic cysts- likely T1 bright
- Lipid poor AML. Think of tuberous sclerosis
Describe RCC Staging:
- Limited to kidney and < 7cm
- Limited to kidney and > 7cm
- Still inside Gerota’s fascia
3A: RV invasion
3B: IVC below diaphragm
3C: IVC above diaphragm - Outside Gerota’s fascia, ipsilateral adrenal.
What is papillary RCC is associated with ?
Hereditary papillary renal carcinoma
Re Renal lymphoma
- Appearance? Unilateral or bilateral?
Most commonly bilateral, enlarged kidneys with small low attenuation cortically based solid nodules or masses.
A solitary mass is seen in 25%.
Out of all the renal masses what is the most likely to preserve the normal reniform shape?
Lymphoma
What is the most common visceral organ involved in leukaemia?
Kidneys
Typically the kidneys are smooth and enlarged. Hypodense lesions are cortically based only.
Re Oncocytoma:
- DDx
- On USS and PET
- Solid mass with central scar- no malignant features such as vessel invasion.
- DDx RCC, till proven otherwise
- USS: spoke wheel vascular pattern
- PET: hotter than surrounding renal cortex.
Name a syndrome associated with bilateral oncocytomas:
BHD- Birt Hogg Dube
RCC vs oncocytoma on PET
RCC is typically COLDER than surrounding renal parenchyma on PET.
Oncocytoma is typically HOTTER than surrounding renal parenchyma on PET.
What are the multilocular cystic nephroma- MLCN?
BUZZWORD
Age group
These are non communicating fluid filled locules surrounded by thick fibrous capsule. Characterised by absence of solid component or necrosis.
BUZZWORD: Protrudes into the renal pelvis.
Bi modal: 4 year old boys and 40 year old women.
List the Bosniak cyst classification:
- Simple cysts < 15 HU with no enhancement.
- Hyperdense < 3cm. Thin calcification, thin septation.
2F. Hyperdense > 3cm. Minimally thickened calcifications (5% chance of cancer). - Thick septations, mural nodules (50% chance of cancer)
- Any enhancement > 15HU. 100% chance of cancer
Hyperdense cyst
If the mass is > 70HU and homogenous - it is benign.
ADPKD
- Age group
- Association:
Autosomal Dominant in ADults
- Hypedense cysts with calcified walls due to prior haemorrhage.
- Cysts in liver 70%
- Berry aneurysm
ARPKD
- Presentation?
- Liver findings?
HTN and renal failure.
- Instead of cysts in the liver, they have abnormal bile ducts and fibrosis. CONGENITAL HEPATIC FIBROSIS is always present in ARPKD.
- The ratio of liver and kidney disease is inversely related.
- USS: Kidneys are smoothly enlarged and diffusely echogenic with loss of corticomedullary differentiation. .
Uraemic cystic kidney disease
40% of patients with end stage renal disease develop cysts. This rises with duration of dialysis
The cysts will regress after transplant.
One cause of small kidneys.
Multiple filling defect on a RUG.
Condyloma acuminata
Instrumentation including retrograde urography is contraindicated because of risk of seeding
What type of cancer is urethral cancer
Squamous cell cancer except prostatic urethra has TCC
Urethral diverticulum cancer
Adenocarcinoma
Saddle bag configuration on sag MRI, repeated infection
Female urethral diverticulum
Risk of adenocarcinoma
Re VHL
- AD/AR/X linked?
- what type of RCC?
- Autosomal Dominant- AD
- Causes renal cysts and RCC (Clear cell).
VHL is a multi system disease. Which organs does it affect?
Multi system disease:
a) Pancreas:
- Cysts,
- Serous microcystic adenomas,
- Nuroendocrine tumour
b) Adrenal: Phaeochromocytoma
c) CNS: Haemangioblastoma
Re Tuberous sclerosis
- AD/AR/X linked?
- Which organs are affected?
- AD, hamartoma
a) Lungs: LAM and chylothorax
b) Renal: Bilateral AML and RCC
c) Heart: Rhabdomyosarcoma
d) Brain:
- Giant cell astrocytoma
- Cortical and subcortical tubers
- Subependymal nodules
Re Lithium nephropathy:
What does it cause?
Diabetes insipidus and renal insufficiency
Normal to small sized kidneys with numerous tiny cysts
Multicystic Dysplastic Kidney - MCDK
- Age group
- Features?
Paediatric, formed in utereo
- Non functioning renal tissue- No excretory function in NM
- Contralateral renal tract abnormality in 50%-
Vesico ureteric reflux most common anomaly followed by PUJ obstruction.
What does lipid poor AML most likely represent?
Tuberous sclerosis
What happens in chronic pyelonephritis:
Scarring, cortical thinning and atrophy, with hypertrophy of normal tissue.
What is the appearance of the acute pyelonephritis:
Striated nephrogram with perinephric stranding.
Most common organism responsible for pyelonephritis:
E Coli
What is emphysematous pyelitis:
- RF?
This is localised to collecting systems. Gas in the ureters and dilated calyces.
RF: Female, Diabetes, Urinary obstruction
What do you understand by the term Pyonephrosis:
This is infection or obstruction of collecting system. Fluid level is seen in the collecting system on USS.
What are the causes of pyonephrosis?
- Stones
- Tumour
- Sloughed papilla secondary to pyelonephritis
Re XGP
- Process?
- BUZZWORD
- Most common cause is STAGHORN calculi, and repeated infection (proteus) which leads to chronic destructive granulomatous process.
- Psoas and perirenal abscess
- BUZZWORD: BEAR PAW sign on CT
Re Papillary necrosis:
- Define
- Causes
This is ischaemic necrosis of the renal papilla most commonly involving the medullary pyramids.
- Most common cause:
- Diabetes
- Pyelonephritis
- Sickle cell- 50% develop this.
- TB
- Analgesia
- Cirrhosis
Papillary necrosis:
Sign?
Appearance
- Lobster claw sign: the necrotic cavity in the papilla with linear streaks of contrast inside the calyx has been called a lobster claw sign.
- Filling defects in the calyx,