Module 08: Renal Medicine (Assessment)
A 40 –year-old man presents to you with complains of recurrent right-sided loin pain for the past 3 months. A MSU shows white blood cells of > 1000/mm3, no organisms or casts seen. A plain abdominal X-ray is unremarkable but an intravenous pyelogram[ IVP] shows and obstructed pelvi-calceal system with a filling defect in the proximal right ureter.
What is the most appropriate diagnosis?
A. Renal calculi
B. Polycystic kidney
C. Hydatid cyst of the kidney
D. Renal –cell carcinoma
E. Renal tuberculosis
A 40 –year-old man presents to you with complains of recurrent right-sided loin pain for the past 3 months. A MSU shows white blood cells of > 1000/mm3, no organisms or casts seen. A plain abdominal X-ray is unremarkable but an intravenous pyelogram[ IVP] shows and obstructed pelvi-calceal system with a filling defect in the proximal right ureter.
What is the most appropriate diagnosis?
A. Renal calculi
B. Polycystic kidney
C. Hydatid cyst of the kidney
D. Renal –cell carcinoma
E. Renal tuberculosis