Spoke-wheel pattern in renal oncocytoma seen on double-phase helical CT.

Renal oncocytomas are benign, solid tumours of the kidney. An angiographic spoke-wheel pattern is known to be associated with oncocytomas, although it is not pathognomonic. On review of the literature, we found two reports of sonographic spoke-wheel appearance in oncocytomas. These were sufficiently characteristic to enable a confident preoperative diagnosis of oncocytoma. We present a case of a surgically proven oncocytoma with a distinct helical CT appearance, -commensurate with the angiographic and sonographic spoke-wheel appearance from which the diagnosis was suspected preoperatively.

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