IMAGING MODALITIES – Plain abdominal x ray – BNO-IVP – Retrograde & antegrade pyelography – Retrograde uretrography/cystography/urethrocystography – Bipolar Urethrocystography – Voiding Cystourethrography – Ultrasonography – CT Scan – MRI – Nuclear Imaging – Hysterosalphingography ANATOMY Genitourinary System • Urinary System – Kidney – Ureter – Bladder – Urethra ANATOMY ANATOMY KIDNEY • Bean shaped (convex laterally & concave medially) • Length: ±11,5cm or 31/2 vertebral body) • Width: ±5-8cm • Thickness: ±3cm • Retroperitoneal • Between Th12- L3 • Right kidney is lower ± 1cm than left kidney PLAIN ABDOMINAL X-RAY • Routine • Good quality films will show the kidney outlines – Enlargement (mass/hydronephrosis) can be recognized • Calcification – Opaque calculi in the kidney, ureter or bladder – Nephrocalcinosis : calcification in the renal parenchym. • Air distribution in the bowel – Sentinel loop NORMAL ENLARGEMENT OF THE KIDNEYS MRI : Long axis of the kidneys is directed downward and outward, parallel to the lateral border of the psoas muscles ANATOMY URETER • Diameter 1mm-1cm • Length: 25-30cm • Retroperitoneal • Three normal narrowing area – Pelvoureter junction (PUJ) – Pelvic brim where the iliac vessels cross the ureter – Vesicoureter junction (VUJ) ANATOMY URETER ANATOMY BLADDER • Urine reservoir • Posterosuperior to the pubic bone • Position: – Empty: In the pelvic cavity – Full: Extend to the abdominal cavity • Capacity – Adult: 350-500 cc – Children: (Age [in year] + 2) x 30 cc ANATOMY BLADDER ANATOMY URETHRA • Length: – Male: 17,5-20cm – Female: 4cm • Male urethra divided by inferior aspect of urogenital diaphragm into: – Anterior part • Cavernous/Penile part • Bulbar part – Posterior part • Membranous part • Prostatic part ANATOMY URETHRA ANATOMY Retrograde Urethrography • To assess the urethra • The contrast media is injected from the distal to the proximal part of the urethra (retrograde or ascending) ANATOMY Male Reproductive System ANATOMY Female Reproductive System Ovarian cyst