ARRS Case of the Week

GENITOURINARY IMAGING

Case Author: Brett Riedinger, MD and Bilal Tahir, MD Indiana University School of Medicine

History

45 year-old male with history of diabetes mellitus presenting with 48 hours of radiating lower abdominal pain, without traumatic injury, found to have acute diverticulitis and the additional finding depicted.

Figure 1: CT Abdomen and Pelvis with intravenous contrast showing hypodense lesion in the superior left renal pole

Figure 2: Axial T2-weighted sequence showing relative isointensity to the surrounding renal parenchyma in the area of left renal lesion

Figure 3: Diffusion-weighted imaging (top) and Apparent Diffusion Coefficient (bottom) axial sequences showing restricted diffusion in the left renal lesion

Figure 4: Axial T1-weighted post-contrast (5-minute delay) sequence with a relatively hypointense left renal lesion when compared to adjacent renal parenchyma

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ARRS Case of the Week

GENITOURINARY IMAGING

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