Nephrobronchial fistula and lung abscess secondary to Xanthogranulomatous pyelonephritis

There are multiple causes of lung abscess, but the differential rarely includes pyelonephritis as a primary cause leading to lung abscess resulting from the development of a nephrobronchial fistula. The patient had no urinary symptoms or abdominal pain and the etiology of lung abscess was only incid...

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Autores principales: Uppe, Abhay, Nikalji, Ravindra, Dubey, Manish, Kadu, Nilesh
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4502209/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26180394
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-2113.159590
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author Uppe, Abhay
Nikalji, Ravindra
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description There are multiple causes of lung abscess, but the differential rarely includes pyelonephritis as a primary cause leading to lung abscess resulting from the development of a nephrobronchial fistula. The patient had no urinary symptoms or abdominal pain and the etiology of lung abscess was only incidentally discovered after chest CT revealed extension of pleural fluid below the diaphragm.
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spelling pubmed-45022092015-07-15 Nephrobronchial fistula and lung abscess secondary to Xanthogranulomatous pyelonephritis Uppe, Abhay Nikalji, Ravindra Dubey, Manish Kadu, Nilesh Lung India Case Report There are multiple causes of lung abscess, but the differential rarely includes pyelonephritis as a primary cause leading to lung abscess resulting from the development of a nephrobronchial fistula. The patient had no urinary symptoms or abdominal pain and the etiology of lung abscess was only incidentally discovered after chest CT revealed extension of pleural fluid below the diaphragm. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2015 /pmc/articles/PMC4502209/ /pubmed/26180394 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-2113.159590 Text en Copyright: © Lung India http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title Nephrobronchial fistula and lung abscess secondary to Xanthogranulomatous pyelonephritis
title_full Nephrobronchial fistula and lung abscess secondary to Xanthogranulomatous pyelonephritis
title_fullStr Nephrobronchial fistula and lung abscess secondary to Xanthogranulomatous pyelonephritis
title_full_unstemmed Nephrobronchial fistula and lung abscess secondary to Xanthogranulomatous pyelonephritis
title_short Nephrobronchial fistula and lung abscess secondary to Xanthogranulomatous pyelonephritis
title_sort nephrobronchial fistula and lung abscess secondary to xanthogranulomatous pyelonephritis
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4502209/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26180394
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-2113.159590
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