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Urologic Radiology

Improvements in medicine have helped all doctors, especially urologists. Urologists now have many tools to help diagnose disease in our most private body parts. Urologic Radiology includes several ways to carefully look inside organs like the kidneys, ureters, bladder, and reproductive organs. Imaging tools can be basic like x-rays to more complex tools.

Archived from the 2024 edition

Overview

Generally, these imaging tests are detailed, often pain-free, and quick.

Angiography, also called Arteriography, is the X-ray imaging of blood vessels using a contrast agent (dye). The dye makes the blood vessels visible with an X-ray.

In this entry

The archived page carried these sections, in this order.

  • What is Angiography
  • What is Antegrade Pyelography
  • What are Bone Scans
  • What is a CT Scan
  • What is Cystography
  • What is Intravenous Pyelography
  • What is MRI
  • What is Radionuclide or Nuclear Imaging
  • What is Retrograde Pyelography
  • What is a Retrograde Urethrogram

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