Table 1 Aetiology of perinephric haematoma
From: Radiological diagnosis of perinephric pathology: pictorial essay 2015
Traumatic | Blunt trauma |
Penetrating injury | |
Iatrogenic | Renal biopsy |
Surgery: nephron-sparing/partial nephrectomy | |
Nephrostomy insertion | |
Ablation | |
Lithotripsy | |
Spontaneous | Bleeding diathesis (hepatic failure, haemophilia, systemic lupus erythematosus, thrombocytopaenia) medication-related |
Vascular disease (ANCA vasculitis, Behçet’s disease, arterial venous malformation) | |
Renal tumours (angiomyolipoma, renal cell cancer, renal metastases) | |
Renal infarction (emphysematous pyelonephritis, abscess) | |
Adrenal haemorrhage (sepsis, burns, complicated pregnancy) | |
Renal cysts |