Unsuspected urinoma of an obstructed kidney detected in a bone scan in a patient with lung cancer

Incidental Detection of Perinephric Urinary Leak on Bone Scintigraphy in a Patient with Urinary Bladder Carcinoma

A 71-year-old male patient with urothelial carcinoma of the bladder was referred for ^99mTc-methylene diphosphonate bone scintigraphy to assess for skeletal metastasis. While the bone scan showed no abnormal skeletal uptake, tracer activity was detected in the extrarenal region of the left renal fossa on the planar image; single photon emission computed tomography-computed tomography (CT) demonstrated tracer pooling in the perirenal collection. In addition, the CT detected nontracer-avid parenchymal lung nodules and hypodense liver lesions consistent with metastatic disease. The perinephric urinary leak was drained by percutaneous drainage, confirmed by diuretic renography the following day.