Department of Emergency Medicine

UMEM Educational Pearls

Title: What's the Diagnosis?

Category: Visual Diagnosis

Posted: 4/6/2015 by Haney Mallemat, MD
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Question

25 year-old male with the acute onset of right flank pain. Ultrasound of the right flank is shown. What's the diagnosis?

Answer

  • This is an ultrasound of the kidney demonstrating moderate to severe hydronephrosis seondary to an obstructing renal stone (not shown)
  • The areas that are anechoic (or black) are the blocked ureter, renal pelvis, and calyces

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