Perinephric Abscess Extending to the Psoas Muscle and Causing a Nephro-Cutaneous Fistula

We present a case of a 76-year-old male with dementia transferred from a nursing home with a fever and an abscess on his back. Workup revealed an extensive perinephric abscess, which extended to his psoas muscle, with an additional fistula to his back where the abscess was noted. The extent and trac...

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Autores principales: Alom, Mulham, Bengualid, Victoria
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2023
Materias:
Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10065361/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37009372
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.35662
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description We present a case of a 76-year-old male with dementia transferred from a nursing home with a fever and an abscess on his back. Workup revealed an extensive perinephric abscess, which extended to his psoas muscle, with an additional fistula to his back where the abscess was noted. The extent and tracking of the perinephric abscess were unusual as well as the organisms isolated, Citrobacter koseri and Bacteroides species.
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spelling pubmed-100653612023-04-01 Perinephric Abscess Extending to the Psoas Muscle and Causing a Nephro-Cutaneous Fistula Alom, Mulham Bengualid, Victoria Cureus Internal Medicine We present a case of a 76-year-old male with dementia transferred from a nursing home with a fever and an abscess on his back. Workup revealed an extensive perinephric abscess, which extended to his psoas muscle, with an additional fistula to his back where the abscess was noted. The extent and tracking of the perinephric abscess were unusual as well as the organisms isolated, Citrobacter koseri and Bacteroides species. Cureus 2023-03-01 /pmc/articles/PMC10065361/ /pubmed/37009372 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.35662 Text en Copyright © 2023, Alom et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Perinephric Abscess Extending to the Psoas Muscle and Causing a Nephro-Cutaneous Fistula
title Perinephric Abscess Extending to the Psoas Muscle and Causing a Nephro-Cutaneous Fistula
title_full Perinephric Abscess Extending to the Psoas Muscle and Causing a Nephro-Cutaneous Fistula
title_fullStr Perinephric Abscess Extending to the Psoas Muscle and Causing a Nephro-Cutaneous Fistula
title_full_unstemmed Perinephric Abscess Extending to the Psoas Muscle and Causing a Nephro-Cutaneous Fistula
title_short Perinephric Abscess Extending to the Psoas Muscle and Causing a Nephro-Cutaneous Fistula
title_sort perinephric abscess extending to the psoas muscle and causing a nephro-cutaneous fistula
topic Internal Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10065361/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37009372
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