Advances of multidetector computed tomography in the characterization and staging of renal cell carcinoma

Figure 2 The 70-year-old man with clear cell renal cell carcinoma of the left solitary functioning kidney (stage T1b, grade 2). A: Post-contrast enhanced coronal multiplanar reformation during the corticomedullary phase depicts left upper pole renal mass, strongly and heterogeneously enhancing, after contrast material administration. A thin hyperdense rim (arrowheads) is detected around the tumor, proved to correspond to fibrous pseudocapsule on pathology. Atrophic right kidney (arrow); B: Coronal 3D-reconstruction during the same phase, using maximum intensity projection algorithm shows left renal artery aneurysm (arrow).