Department of Nuclear Medicine, University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, CT, USA
Abstract
A man with metastatic carcinoma of the colon had a bone scan which revealed urinary retention in the left kidney. Ten months later, a Tc-99m-DTPA renai glomerular study showed the left kidney to have only 8% of total renal function. Fifteen months after that, (he same kidney demonstrated 9% of total function, while the right kidney had evolving obstruction due to his neoplasm. The case shows that loss of a significant amount of renal activity can occur over relatively short intervals, but that a small degree of functional activity can persist.
Spencer, R. P and Karimeddini, M. K (1997). Rapid loss of renal function due to obstruction: minimal residual activity. Iranian Journal of Nuclear Medicine, 5(1), 30-31.
MLA
Spencer, R. P, and Karimeddini, M. K. "Rapid loss of renal function due to obstruction: minimal residual activity", Iranian Journal of Nuclear Medicine, 5, 1, 1997, 30-31.
HARVARD
Spencer, R. P, Karimeddini, M. K (1997). 'Rapid loss of renal function due to obstruction: minimal residual activity', Iranian Journal of Nuclear Medicine, 5(1), pp. 30-31.
CHICAGO
R. P Spencer and M. K Karimeddini, "Rapid loss of renal function due to obstruction: minimal residual activity," Iranian Journal of Nuclear Medicine, 5 1 (1997): 30-31,
VANCOUVER
Spencer, R. P, Karimeddini, M. K Rapid loss of renal function due to obstruction: minimal residual activity. Iranian Journal of Nuclear Medicine, 1997; 5(1): 30-31.
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