A 13-Month-Old With Xanthogranulomatous Pyelonephritis With Features of Renal Malakoplakia

A 13-Month-Old With Xanthogranulomatous Pyelonephritis With Features of Renal Malakoplakia

Xanthogranulomatous pyelonephritis is an uncommon chronic inflammatory renal disorder caused by chronic infection with gram-negative bacteria leading to destruction of the renal parenchyma and replacement with foamy lipid-laden macrophages. Renal malakoplakia is another rare form of chronic inflammatory granulomatous disease in the kidney associated with infection usually occurring in adults wi...

Staghorn Renal Calculus with Xanthogranulomatous Pyelonephritis and Renocolic Fistula

Risheng Xu, DO Former Triton Hospitalists at the Houston Methodist Willowbrook Hospital, University of Texas HSC at Houston Lyndon B. Johnson Hospital Academic Hospitalist Khawaja Azimuddin, MD FACS FASCRS Northwest ColonRectal Surgery Physician Association, Houston, TX Reno-colic fistula is rare, and even fewer cases were reported in association with staghorn stones and xanthogranulomatous pye...

Xanthogranulomatous pyelonephritis presenting with unilateral renal vein thrombosis.

Haematuria in an elderly patient is a common urological complaint. A patient is described in whom xanthogranulomatous pyelonephritis presented as unilateral renal vein thrombosis. So far as the author is aware, this is the first report of such an association.

Xanthogranulomatous pyelonephritis report of a case in a 5 year old boy

Xanthogranulomatous pyelonephritis is an unusual type of the kidney infection which is characterized by infiltration of mononuclear inflammatory cells and lipid laden macrophages ( foam cells). It is manifested by a firm, lobulated and yellowish kidney mass which is difficult to differentiate from renal cell carcinoma grossly. Six out of 1000 cases of cryonic pyelonephritis which are treated su...

Renal pseudotumours caused by xanthogranulomatous pyelonephritis.