TY - JOUR
T1 - Bilateral pelvic urinomas following ureteral injury from surgery
T2 - Lymphocele look-alikes on computed tomography
AU - Gayer, Gabriela
AU - Halperin, Reuvit
AU - Vasserman, Margarita
AU - Siegel, Yoram
PY - 2005/4
Y1 - 2005/4
N2 - Postoperative fluid collections are a not-infrequent finding on computed tomography (CT), and their causes are numerous. One of the more rare etiologies is a urinoma resulting from a ureteral injury. Such an injury is one of the most serious complications of abdominal, mainly gynecological, surgery. This complication is often clinically unsuspected, as symptoms are nonspecific and the patient may present weeks and even months after the injury. We present a patient in whom clinically unsuspected bilateral pelvic urinomas were diagnosed on a baseline CT 8 weeks after radical hysterectomy. We want to emphasize the crucial role of CT, especially with delayed scanning, in reaching this diagnosis.
AB - Postoperative fluid collections are a not-infrequent finding on computed tomography (CT), and their causes are numerous. One of the more rare etiologies is a urinoma resulting from a ureteral injury. Such an injury is one of the most serious complications of abdominal, mainly gynecological, surgery. This complication is often clinically unsuspected, as symptoms are nonspecific and the patient may present weeks and even months after the injury. We present a patient in whom clinically unsuspected bilateral pelvic urinomas were diagnosed on a baseline CT 8 weeks after radical hysterectomy. We want to emphasize the crucial role of CT, especially with delayed scanning, in reaching this diagnosis.
KW - CT
KW - Complications
KW - Radical hysterectomy
KW - Ureteral injury
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U2 - 10.1007/s10140-004-0394-8
DO - 10.1007/s10140-004-0394-8
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C2 - 16028322
AN - SCOPUS:18044394759
SN - 1070-3004
VL - 11
SP - 167
EP - 169
JO - Emergency Radiology
JF - Emergency Radiology
IS - 3
ER -