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Pear-Shaped Urinary Bladder
Tear-drop shaped bladder
General Considerations
- AKA tear-drop shaped bladder
- Elongated appearance of the urinary bladder due to extrinsic compression by substance or disease described below
- CT is most helpful in identifying the cause of the compression
Causes
- Pelvic lipomatosis
- Fluid in the pelvis, including blood
- Bilateral pelvic lymphadenopathy
- Bilateral iliac artery aneurysms
- Hypertrophy of the psoas muscles
Imaging Findings
- Narrow and elongated urinary bladder cause by symmetrical extrinsic compression
Pear-shaped urinary bladder. The urinary bladder is opacified on this intravenous pyelogram. The bladder is narrowed and elongated in shaped, compressed from both sides by, this case, excessive pelvic fate (pelvic lipomatosis).
The Pear-Shaped Bladder. MA Ambos, MA. Bosniak, RS. Lefleur, and MA. Madayag. Radiology, Volume 122, Issue 1, January 1977
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