Kidney Tumor Vs Kidney Stone. But when there s a tumor growing your kidney s normal functions may be disrupted. However more often than not a ct scan performed for evaluation of kidney stones without intravenous contrast will miss these diagnoses as well.
Kidney cancers that are found early with these tests can often be cured. Plus i ve had chronic kidney stones and infections what normallly happens is it either starts with an infection and ends with a stone or vice versa. The kidney keeps producing urine but it can t get rid of it.
But what starts as an innocuous bladder infection usually is a raging kidney infection within 36 hours in any uti symptoms.
This process called hydronephrosis is what often causes the pain of kidney stones. So if you know you have a kidney stone but start developing other symptoms like fever chills or extremely severe pain always head straight to your doctor to check for infection. This causes a back up of urine that causes the kidney to expand painfully. At some point the kidney stone they found may be an issue but they don t seem worried about it at the moment.