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Acute focal bacterial nephritis in an 8‐year‐old girl (Case Report)
Author(s) -
WAN KONGSANG,
CHEN CHUNAN
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
nephrology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.752
H-Index - 61
eISSN - 1440-1797
pISSN - 1320-5358
DOI - 10.1111/j.1440-1797.2006.00574.x
Subject(s) - medicine , focal infection theory , abdominal pain , tenderness , acute kidney injury , flank pain , radiology , surgery , pathology
SUMMARY: Acute focal bacterial nephritis or acute lobar nephronia is an acute localized non‐liquefactive bacterial kidney infection. Clinically, it may develop as an abscess and present as acute pyelonephritis but is distinguishable by the presence of a focal mass on imaging studies. The authors report the case of an 8‐year‐old girl with fever up to 39°C and left flank pain of 6 days duration. On physical examination, she had nothing remarkable except tenderness and knocking pain over the left costovertebral angle. Post‐contrast abdominal computed tomography revealed several wedge‐shaped hypodense lesions in the left kidney. Urine culture grew Escherichia coli . Acute focal bacterial nephritis was diagnosed. The patient was treated with antibiotics and discharged on the 12th day of hospitalization.