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Two patients presented with ureteric obstruction, and voiding symptoms and constipation, respectively, and were examined by means of intravenous urography and computed tomography. One patient was additionally examined by means of MR tomography. After CT (performed in both patients) and MRT (performed in one patient) had shown a diffuse, contrast-enhancing, infiltrating process in the small pelvis with infiltration of adjacent organs and vessels, surgical biopsy proved the diagnosis of idopathic pelvic fibrosis. Extension of retroperitoneal fibrosis below the pelvic rim is very rare. Clinical symptoms of pelvic fibrosis are variable and imaging findings may lead to a broad list of differential diagnoses. We present two patients with idiopathic pelvic fibrosis and discuss radiological findings and differential diagnoses of this rare disease.
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Received: 6 March 2000 Revised: 30 May 2000 Accepted: 5 June 2000
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Wiesner, W., Stoffel, F. & Bongartz, G. Imaging findings in idiopathic pelvic fibrosis. Eur Radiol 11, 665–669 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1007/s003300000558
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