The diagnosis and treatment for 5 cases with retroperitoneal fibrosis and literature review
JIE Shao-liang
YANG Jin-hua
YAN Cheng-lan
XIE Jian-fang
WU Meng
DING Li-juan
HAO Li-ming
CHEN Jun-wei
Abstract：Objective:To investigate the status of diagnosis and treatment of retroperitoneal fibrosis( RPF),to raise the ac-curately diagnostic rate of RPF. Methods:Analyse diagnosis,treatment and prognosis of the 5 RFP patients. Results:The early symptoms was different,abdomen pain and back pain as main symptoms,advanced stages symptoms to vary with the affected or-gan,sees by abdominal mass,ascites,genitourinary tract symptom and obstruction. The main basis of diagnosis is CT and mag-netic resonance imaging,but,dopolor ultrasonography was very helpful in diagnosis of kidney with hydronephrosis patients and ureteral diseases patients. In active period of RPF,we shoud give aggressive treatment of adequate glucocorticoids and immuno-suppressant;when fibrosis develops to obstruction,it must be interfered with operation. Conclusion:Such disease is rare and has a high misdiagnosis rate. Glucocorticoids is more effective to RPF,it might need surgery in the late stage.
Keywords：retroperitoneal fibrosisdiagnosis and treatmentreview
Publication Date：2014-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：4( 661-664 )