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. 2024 Jun 14;5(3):e13139.
doi: 10.1002/emp2.13139. eCollection 2024 Jun.

Postrenal acute kidney injury

[Article in Slovenian]
Marcos Adriano Garcia Campos  1 , Pedro Manuel Barros de Sousa  1 , Joyce Santos Lages  1 , Gyl Eanes Barros Silva  1 , Ricardo Ferreira Santos  1
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Postrenal acute kidney injury

[Article in Slovenian]
Marcos Adriano Garcia Campos et al. J Am Coll Emerg Physicians Open. .
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Figures

FIGURE 1
FIGURE 1
Sagittal computed tomography reconstruction demonstrates giant fecaloma and colonic dilatation (white arrowhead).
FIGURE 2
FIGURE 2
Coronal computed tomography reconstruction demonstrates colonic dilatation and giant fecaloma (white arrowhead) compressing and displacing the bladder (white asterisk).
FIGURE 3
FIGURE 3
Axial computed tomography reconstruction discovers bilateral pyelocaliceal dilatation (white asterisk) due to compression in the distal thirds of the two ureters by giant fecaloma and colonic dilatation (white arrowhead).
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