Clinical Significance of the Renal Angiography

Hwang, Jai Hoon; Kim, Se Kyong

Abstract

Renal angiography is a highly valuable diagnostic procedure for the detection and exact evaluation of various renal disease, especially differentiation of benign and malignant lesions. During the period of January 1978 to December 1983, 39patients who had been taken renal angiography were analysed and following results were obtained. 1. Male to female ratio of performing renal angiography was approximately 1:1 and peak incidence was fifth decade. 2. Indication of renal angiography was renal mass, abnormal I.V.P. and R.G.P., renal bleeding, kidney donor, hypertension, in order of its frequency. 3. The most frequent diagnosis encountered was renal cell carcinoma (15 cases), diagnostic accuracy of renal angiography was 93.3%. 4. Arterial embolization of renal cell carcinoma was tried in 2 cases preoperatively, and it was found that this was a valuable method in reducing blood loss, in performing operation.