Diagnosis of Polycystic Kidney Disease using CT and Ultrasound

Abstract

This is a comparative study concerned with the diagnosis of autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease in adults Sudanese patients by using CT scan and ultrasound .

The study employed a simple methodology, including data collection from medical imaging using the tow modalities prospectively .

Random samples of twenty patients ( males and females ). they were scanned with ultrasound and ten of them were then scanned with CT scan as requested by their clinicians , data was statistically analyzed and findings were tabulated, computed and graphically represented.

The results were interpreted by different Radiologists for both modalities confirmed that the presence of the disease associations and complications been presented by these modalities .

The study showed that CT is higher than U/S in detecting some of ADPKD findings likes ; very small hepatic cysts ( 80% ) in CT and (30%) in U/S , splenic cysts ( 10%) in CT and ( 0%) in U/S and pancreatic cysts (30%) in CT and (10%) in U/S .