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Nonobstructing renal stones on unenhanced CT: a real cause for renal colic?
- Source :
- AJR. American journal of roentgenology. 190(2)
- Publication Year :
- 2008
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Abstract
- OBJECTIVE. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the incidence of nonobstructing renal stones on unenhanced CT in patients presenting to the emergency department with renal colic and to determine whether this finding might be the cause of patients' symptoms.CONCLUSION. Nonobstructing renal stones on unenhanced CT are a frequent finding in patients evaluated in the emergency department for suspected renal colic. These stones are usually not recognized as the cause of pain by physicians and may be responsible for multiple clinical and radiologic evaluations. In the absence of other clinical or CT evidence of a separate cause, these stones are likely to be the cause of a patient's acute pain.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
medicine.medical_specialty
Adolescent
Colic
Diagnosis, Differential
Kidney Calculi
medicine
Humans
Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging
In patient
Renal colic
Spiral ct
Acute pain
Retrospective Studies
business.industry
Retrospective cohort study
General Medicine
Emergency department
Middle Aged
Female
Radiology
medicine.symptom
business
Tomography, X-Ray Computed
Ureteral Obstruction
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15463141
- Volume :
- 190
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- AJR. American journal of roentgenology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....af77edce61ae14633ee50d24c43176ec