Acute leukemia masquerading as xanthogranulomatous pyelonephritis
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Acute leukemia masquerading as xanthogranulomatous pyelonephritis
An 82-year-old man presented with high-grade fever, left flank pain with dysuria. Urine culture revealed the growth of Escherichia coli. Contrast-enhanced computed tomography features were suggestive of xanthogranulomatous pyelonephritis (XPN) of the left kidney. Serial hemogram studies revealed markedly raised white cell count with the presence of blast cells. On further evaluation by peripher...
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عنوان ژورنال: Urology Annals
سال: 2017
ISSN: 0974-7796
DOI: 10.4103/0974-7796.204179