CT Findings After Nephron-Sparing Surgery of Renal Tumors
Mu Sook Lee1,
Young Taik Oh1,
Woong Kyu Han2,
Koon Ho Rha2,
Young Deuk Choi2,
Sung Joon Hong2,
Seung Choul Yang2 and
Ki Whang Kim1
1 Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Research Institute of Radiological
Science, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seodaemun-ku Shinchon-dong
134, Seoul 120-752, Republic of Korea.
2 Department of Urology, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic
of Korea.

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Fig. 2A —Round postoperative granuloma in 47-year-old woman after left
nephron-sparing surgery for renal cell carcinoma. On preoperative axial
corticomedullary phase CT, 3-cm-diameter solid mass (arrow) is seen
in left kidney.
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Fig. 2B —Round postoperative granuloma in 47-year-old woman after left
nephron-sparing surgery for renal cell carcinoma. On axial corticomedullary
phase (B) and axial parenchymal phase (C) CT performed 3 months
after nephron-sparing surgery, delayed, minimally enhancing, and round
postoperative granuloma is seen at excision site (arrow) in left
kidney.
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Fig. 2C —Round postoperative granuloma in 47-year-old woman after left
nephron-sparing surgery for renal cell carcinoma. On axial corticomedullary
phase (B) and axial parenchymal phase (C) CT performed 3 months
after nephron-sparing surgery, delayed, minimally enhancing, and round
postoperative granuloma is seen at excision site (arrow) in left
kidney.
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Fig. 2D —Round postoperative granuloma in 47-year-old woman after left
nephron-sparing surgery for renal cell carcinoma. On axial parenchymal phase
CT performed 6 months after nephron-sparing surgery, size of round
postoperative granuloma has decreased (arrow).
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Fig. 3A —Fat at excision site in 53-year-old woman after left
nephron-sparing surgery for renal cell carcinoma. On preoperative axial
parenchymal phase CT, 4-cm-diameter solid mass (arrow) is seen in
left kidney.
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Fig. 3B —Fat at excision site in 53-year-old woman after left
nephron-sparing surgery for renal cell carcinoma. On axial corticomedullary
phase CT performed 3 months after nephron-sparing surgery, low-density lesion
with negative CT attenuation (–45 H) is seen at excision site
(arrow), suggesting fat at excision site.
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Fig. 4A —Linear or stellate parenchymal scar in 33-year-old man after
right nephron-sparing surgery for angiomyolipoma. On preoperative axial
parenchymal phase CT, large fat-containing mass (arrow) is seen in
right kidney.
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Fig. 4B —Linear or stellate parenchymal scar in 33-year-old man after
right nephron-sparing surgery for angiomyolipoma. On axial parenchymal phase
CT performed 3 months after nephron-sparing surgery, 2-mm-diameter, narrow
elongated linear line (arrow) that runs through renal parenchyma is
seen at surgical site in right kidney. Line shows no enhancement.
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Fig. 5A —Parenchymal defect in 44-year-old woman after right
nephron-sparing surgery. On axial corticomedullary phase CT performed 4 months
after nephron-sparing surgery, sharply demarcated renal parenchyma defect
involving mainly cortex (arrow) is seen in right kidney.
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Fig. 5B —Parenchymal defect in 44-year-old woman after right
nephron-sparing surgery. On axial parenchymal phase CT performed 14 months
after nephron-sparing surgery, parenchymal defect with no significant change
(arrow) is seen in surgical site.
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Fig. 6A —Perinephric strands in retroperitoneal space in 53-year-old
man after nephron-sparing surgery for renal cell carcinoma. On preoperative
axial parenchymal phase CT, 2-cm-diameter solid mass is seen in right kidney
(arrow).
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Fig. 6B —Perinephric strands in retroperitoneal space in 53-year-old
man after nephron-sparing surgery for renal cell carcinoma. On axial
corticomedullary phase CT performed 3 months after nephron-sparing surgery,
linear strands are seen in retroperitoneal space (arrows).
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Fig. 7A —Mass-like lesion in retroperitoneal space in 65-year-old man
after right nephron-sparing surgery for papillary neoplasia. On preoperative
axial unenhanced CT, 1.5-cm-diameter solid mass (arrow) is seen in
right kidney.
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Fig. 7B —Mass-like lesion in retroperitoneal space in 65-year-old man
after right nephron-sparing surgery for papillary neoplasia. On axial
corticomedullary phase CT performed 6 months after nephron-sparing surgery,
mass-mimicking lesion with soft-tissue density is seen in retroperitoneal
space (arrow) with no enhancement or mass effect.
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Fig. 7C —Mass-like lesion in retroperitoneal space in 65-year-old man
after right nephron-sparing surgery for papillary neoplasia. On axial
parenchymal phase CT performed 1 year after nephron-sparing surgery, extent of
mass-like lesion has decreased (arrow).
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Fig. 8A —Mixture of perinephric strands and mass-like lesion in
retroperitoneal space in 47-year-old man after right nephron-sparing surgery
for renal cell carcinoma. On preoperative axial parenchymal phase CT,
1-cm-diameter solid mass (arrow) is seen in right kidney.
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Fig. 8B —Mixture of perinephric strands and mass-like lesion in
retroperitoneal space in 47-year-old man after right nephron-sparing surgery
for renal cell carcinoma. On axial parenchymal phase CT performed 6 months
after nephron-sparing surgery, soft-tissue-density lesion (solid
arrow) with perinephric strands (dashed arrow) is seen in
retroperitoneal space with no enhancement.
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Fig. 8C —Mixture of perinephric strands and mass-like lesion in
retroperitoneal space in 47-year-old man after right nephron-sparing surgery
for renal cell carcinoma. On axial parenchymal phase CT performed 2 years
after nephron-sparing surgery, extent of mixture of perinephric strands and
mass-like lesion in retroperitoneal space has decreased.
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Fig. 9A —Local recurrence at surgical site in 41-year-old man after
right nephron-sparing surgery for renal cell carcinoma. On preoperative axial
corticomedullary phase CT, 1-cm-diameter solid mass (arrow) is seen
in right kidney.
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Fig. 9B —Local recurrence at surgical site in 41-year-old man after
right nephron-sparing surgery for renal cell carcinoma. On axial
corticomedullary phase CT performed 3 months after nephron-sparing surgery,
marked enhancing recurring nodule (arrow) is seen at excision
site.
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Fig. 10A —Local recurrence at surgical site in 56-year-old woman after
right nephron-sparing surgery for renal cell carcinoma. On preoperative axial
parenchymal phase CT, 1-cm-diameter solid mass (arrow) is seen in
right kidney.
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Fig. 10B —Local recurrence at surgical site in 56-year-old woman after
right nephron-sparing surgery for renal cell carcinoma. On axial
corticomedullary phase CT performed 3 months after nephron-sparing surgery,
small, strongly enhancing nodule (arrow) is seen at surgical
site.
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Fig. 10C —Local recurrence at surgical site in 56-year-old woman after
right nephron-sparing surgery for renal cell carcinoma. On sequential axial
corticomedullary phase CT, size of enhancing nodule (arrow) has
increased. Nodule was found to be local recurrence.
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Fig. 11A —Recurrence at perinephric space in 41-year-old man after
right nephron-sparing surgery for renal cell carcinoma. On preoperative axial
corticomedullary phase CT, 1-cm-diameter solid mass (arrow) is seen
in right kidney.
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Fig. 11B —Recurrence at perinephric space in 41-year-old man after
right nephron-sparing surgery for renal cell carcinoma. On axial
corticomedullary phase CT performed 3 months after nephron-sparing surgery,
multiple enhancing recurrent nodules (arrows) are seen at perinephric
site.
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Fig. 12A —In 74-year-old man, hematoma as complication after right
nephron-sparing surgery for renal cell carcinoma. Gross hematuria and anemia
developed 2 weeks after surgery. On preoperative axial corticomedullary phase
CT, large heterogeneously enhancing solid mass (arrow) is seen in
right kidney.
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Fig. 12B —In 74-year-old man, hematoma as complication after right
nephron-sparing surgery for renal cell carcinoma. Gross hematuria and anemia
developed 2 weeks after surgery. On axial unenhanced CT performed 2 weeks
after nephron-sparing surgery, homogeneous mass (arrows) with
attenuation of 70 H is seen around surgical clips.
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Fig. 12C —In 74-year-old man, hematoma as complication after right
nephron-sparing surgery for renal cell carcinoma. Gross hematuria and anemia
developed 2 weeks after surgery. Coronal reformatted unenhanced CT also shows
hyperattenuated mass, which is consistent with hematoma at surgical site
(arrows).
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Fig. 13A —Abscess as complication of nephron-sparing surgery in
66-year-old man after right nephron-sparing surgery. On preoperative axial
parenchymal phase CT, 1.5-cm-diameter solid mass (arrow) is seen in
right kidney.
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Fig. 13B —Abscess as complication of nephron-sparing surgery in
66-year-old man after right nephron-sparing surgery. On axial parenchymal
phase CT performed 2 weeks after nephron-sparing surgery, loculated fluid
collection with thick enhancing wall (arrows) is seen at anterior
pararenal space. This was found to be abscess.
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Fig. 13C —Abscess as complication of nephron-sparing surgery in
66-year-old man after right nephron-sparing surgery. On axial parenchymal
phase CT performed 3 months after nephron-sparing surgery, postoperative
abscess has disappeared.
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Fig. 14A —Ischemia as complication of nephron-sparing surgery in
39-year-old woman after left nephron-sparing surgery for cystic renal cell
carcinoma. On preoperative axial corticomedullary phase CT, cystic mass with
enhancing thick septa (arrow) is seen in left kidney.
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Fig. 14B —Ischemia as complication of nephron-sparing surgery in
39-year-old woman after left nephron-sparing surgery for cystic renal cell
carcinoma. On axial parenchymal phase CT performed 1 year after
nephron-sparing surgery, parenchyma at surgical site shows decreased
enhancement and mild atrophied change (arrow) in comparison with
remnant renal parenchyma.
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Fig. 14C —Ischemia as complication of nephron-sparing surgery in
39-year-old woman after left nephron-sparing surgery for cystic renal cell
carcinoma. On coronal reformatted parenchymal phase CT, ischemic change is
also seen at surgical site (arrow). Change was regarded as
postoperative ischemia.
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Fig. 15 —Another case of ischemia in 45-year-old man after right
nephron-sparing surgery for renal cell carcinoma. On coronal reformatted
parenchymal phase CT, right kidney shows atrophied change and lack of
parenchymal enhancement.
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Fig. 16A —Ureteral or renal pedicle stricture as complication of
nephron-sparing surgery in 55-year-old woman after left nephron-sparing
surgery for renal cell carcinoma. On preoperative coronal reformatted
parenchymal phase CT, 3-cm-diameter solid mass (arrow) is seen in
left kidney.
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Fig. 16B —Ureteral or renal pedicle stricture as complication of
nephron-sparing surgery in 55-year-old woman after left nephron-sparing
surgery for renal cell carcinoma. On axial parenchymal phase CT performed 1
year after nephron-sparing surgery, renal vascular luminal narrowing
(arrow) and hydronephrosis with parenchymal atrophy are seen,
suggesting ureteral or renal pedicle stricture.
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