Nucleolar organiser regions in kidney tumours and xanthogranulomatous pyelonephritis.

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...

Nucleolar organiser regions in renal tumours.

Xanthogranulomatous Pyelonephritis of a Lower Pole Moiety in a Duplicated Collecting System Kidney

Xanthogranulomatous pyelonephritis (XGP) is a destructive inflammatory process which is frequently caused by recurrent urinary tract infections or chronic obstruction by kidney stones. We present a 56-year-old female with an extensive retroperitoneal urinoma and xanthogranulomatous pyelonephritis of the lower pole moiety in a kidney with a duplicated collecting system due to obstructive nephrol...

Metachronous emphysematous pyelonephritis and xanthogranulomatous pyelonephritis in the contralateral kidney: an extremely rare condition.

Received April 2007 Accepted August 2007 INTRODUCTION Emphysematous pyelonephritis is an uncommon and severe acute bacterial infection of the kidney. Diagnosis is usually made very late due to changing manifestations and infrequent occurrence. On the other hand, xanthogranulomatous pyelonephritis is a rare severe renal infection which typically results in diffused destruction of the kidney in a...

Xanthogranulomatous pyelonephritis in the native kidney of a renal transplant recipient.

Key words: xanthogranulomatous pyelonephritis, renal showed that 90% of the erythrocytes were distorted, without any additional abnormality. transplantation, xanthoma cells Abdominal radiography did not show any calcifica-tions. Ultrasound examination discovered an enlarged left native kidney with a dilated collecting system,