Bilateral Emphysematous Pyelonephritis Resolving to Medical Therapy: Demonstration by US and CT

Overview

Journal Eur Radiol

Specialty Radiology

Date 1997 Jan 1

PMID 9228098

Citations 13

Authors

F Grozel

Y Berthezene

C Guerin

V A Tran-Minh

M CROISILLE

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Abstract

Emphysematous pyelonephritis (EPN) is an uncommon and life-threatening necrotizing infection of the renal parenchyma occurring mostly in diabetic patients. It is usually unilateral. Nephrectomy is the current therapeutic procedure. We report the plain radiograph, US and CT findings in a 26-year-old diabetic woman who presented with bilateral EPN and was cured by medical treatment alone.

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