RADIONUCLIDE VOIDING CYSTOURETHROGRAM (VCUG)

DATE: 11/10/2005

PROCEDURE:  After sterile washing of the external genitalia, a Foley catheter was inserted into the urinary bladder through the urethra.  99mTc DTPA was injected into the Foley irrigation tubing and sterile saline was instilled into the bladder.  Posterior projection images were obtained during the filling, voiding, and postvoiding periods.

RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL DOSE: [1.0] mCi 

CORRELATIVE STUDIES: None. 

COMPARISON: None. 

CLINICAL HISTORY: The patient is a [...]-year-old [fe]male with history of vesicoureteral reflux.

FINDINGS: 

Faint tracer activity in the direction of the right ureter is present in the mid-filling phase. 

In the voiding phase, reflux was seen in both ureters with the left greater than right. 

Reflux is still visible in the post-void phase all the way up to renal calices.

CONCLUSIONS:

Moderate to severe bilateral vesicoureteral reflux, left worse than right.

Thank you for referring this patient to the UCLA Nuclear Medicine clinic.

I, [...], M.D., Ph.D., have reviewed this Nuclear Medicine study personally, and am in full agreement with the findings of the report presented here.