Radiology, Vol 155, 311-313, Copyright © 1985 by Radiological Society of North America
Self-limiting extravasation in the unused urinary bladder
DF Caroline, HM Pollack, MP Banner and C Schneck
Patients being evaluated as potential renal transplant recipients routinely
undergo voiding cystourethrography. Eight patients were encountered in whom
extraperitoneal extravasation was noted from the region of the
ureterovesical junction during voiding (seven patients) or during filling
(one patient). Extravasation was bilateral in six patients and unilateral
in two. The patients neither experienced symptoms related to the
extravasation, required treatment, nor had sequelae. Five of the eight
patients have subsequently received renal transplants and their bladders
were observed to be normal at surgery. Cystoscopy was also performed in two
of these five patients and was unremarkable. After transplantation, these
patients' bladders functioned normally and gave rise to no symptoms.
