Fat, like any other organ or tissue, can cause both disease and symptomatology. In the pediatric abdomen and pelvis, fat may be involved by a number of conditions, ranging from symptomatic to occult, self-limited to progressive, benign to malignant. This is a review of multimodality cross-sectional imaging findings associated with abdominopelvic fat pathology in children. Read More

Meeting name: IPR 2016 Conjoint Meeting & Exhibition , 2016

Authors: Thiessen Jaclyn, Moore Ryan, Schmitz Kelli, Vajtai Petra, Hopkins Katharine

Keywords: Pathological fat, ultrasound, pediatrics, CT, MRI

Renal trauma is not uncommon in the pediatric population and can be seen in a wide variety of settings, from minor sports-related injuries to serious motor vehicle accidents. The imaging appearance is as varied as the etiology of injuries, ranging from minor parenchymal defects to avulsion of the vascular pedicle. Our educational poster aims at exploring a variety of injuries of the kidney in children, including chronic subcapsular hematoma, different severities of laceration, renal rupture without and with urine extravasation, injuries to the ureter, trauma involving kidneys with congenital anomalies, and trauma in an undiagnosed Wilms' tumor. Because renal trauma can present with many different faces, we aim to highlight essential diagnostic pearls as well as some unusual factors which may predispose the kidney to injury. Read More

Meeting name: IPR 2016 Conjoint Meeting & Exhibition , 2016

Authors: Moore Ryan, Basta Amaya, Schmitz Kelli, Hopkins Katharine, Vajtai Petra

Keywords: renal, trauma, injury, hematoma, laceration