Archives of the AFIP -- RadioGraphics

Figure Legend | Panel A | Panel B | Panel C

Figure 7: Cystic nephroma in a 19-month-old boy with a left-sided abdominal mass incidentally found at a routine visit to the pediatrician. Panel A On a 15-minute excretory urogram, the bowel is displaced by a large mass in the upper pole of the left kidney. Distortion and displacement of the renal collecting system and multiple, round filling defects within the renal pelvis (arrow) are also seen. Panel B Photograph of the gross specimen demonstrates the glistening capsule of the mass and the ureteropelvic junction (arrowheads). Panel C Bivalved specimen shows the walls of the ureteropelvic junction reflected medially and inferiorly (arrowheads) and demonstrates multiple herniated tumor cysts (arrow) within the renal pelvis.

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