Focal bacterial nephritis (lobar nephronia) presenting as renal mass

Authors
Kumar, PD Brown, LA
Citation
Pd. Kumar et La. Brown, Focal bacterial nephritis (lobar nephronia) presenting as renal mass, AM J MED SC, 320(3), 2000, pp. 209-211
Citations number
8
Categorie Soggetti
General & Internal Medicine","Medical Research General Topics
Journal title
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF THE MEDICAL SCIENCES
ISSN journal
00029629 → ACNP
Volume
320
Issue
3
Year of publication
2000
Pages
209 - 211
Database
ISI
SICI code
0002-9629(200009)320:3<209:FBN(NP>2.0.ZU;2-R
Abstract
A focal infection of the kidney can cause a diagnostic dilemma by mimicking a neoplasm. We describe a case of focal bacterial nephritis (acute lobar n ephronia) caused by Escherichia coli in which the diagnosis was confirmed o nly after surgical exploration. Although the patient had fever on admission , urine and blood cultures were negative and fine needle aspiration of the kidney could not rule out a well-differentiated carcinoma.