A renal scan involves the use of nuclear radioactive material to examine your kidneys and assess their function. A renal scan is also known as a renal scintigraphy, nuclear renal imaging, or a ...

A simple CT enhancement measure is able to differentiate a benign form of kidney cancer from an occasionally lethal subtype of renal cell carcinoma (RCC) with virtually 100% accuracy, sparing patients ...

Jan. 15 -- THURSDAY, Jan. 14 (HealthDay News) -- About 25 percent of healthy people have abnormalities in the kidneys and their blood vessels, but most of these abnormalities aren't serious enough to ...

This is a non-invasive, safe and affordable imaging technique which relies on the reflections and echoes of ultrasound pusles which are directed into tissues by a transducer. The transducer converts ...

KIDNEY transplantation now offers a hope for patients dying in chronic uremia. The use of cadavers avoids many of the ethical problems encountered with living donors. The production of urine within ...

Your child needs to have investigations at the hospital to make sure that he or she does not have any structural abnormality of the urinary tract. This means checking the kidneys, the ureters (the ...

When much-loved lollipop man Ernest Parsons attended a free health check for his lungs, he never suspected he would later be diagnosed with kidney cancer. Whilst at the Yorkshire Cancer ...

The fancy full-body scan that has become the new medical trend amongst celebrities may have saved Dwyane Wade's life. The 43-year-old Basketball Hall of Famer revealed in January that he had surgery ...