Localized renal artery dissection
Diagnosis almost certain
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The right renal artery shows an underlying abnormality of ectasia and slight luminal irregularity.
Differential diagnosis is a collagen disorder (unlikely given that all other vessels are normal), vasculitis and fibromuscular dysplasia (although the vessel does not have the typical "beaded" appearance). In the absence of trauma, all three conditions could be associated with spontaneous dissection.
-<p>The right renal artery shows an underlying abnormality of ectasia and slight luminal irregularity. Differential diagnosis is a collagen disorder (unlikely given that all other vessels are normal), <a href="/articles/vasculitis">vasculitis</a> and <a href="/articles/fibromuscular-dysplasia-1">fibromuscular dysplasia</a> (although the vessel does not have the typical "beaded" appearance). In the absence of trauma, all three conditions could be associated with spontaneous dissection.</p>- +<p>The right renal artery shows an underlying abnormality of ectasia and slight luminal irregularity.</p><p>Differential diagnosis is a collagen disorder (unlikely given that all other vessels are normal), <a href="/articles/vasculitis">vasculitis</a> and <a href="/articles/fibromuscular-dysplasia-1">fibromuscular dysplasia</a> (although the vessel does not have the typical "beaded" appearance). In the absence of trauma, all three conditions could be associated with spontaneous dissection.</p>