Open AccessNephrobronchial fistula and lung abscess secondary to Xanthogranulomatous pyelonephritis
Author(s) -
Abhay Uppe,
Ravindra Nikalji,
Mithilesh Kumar Dubey,
Nilesh Kadu
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
lung india
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.457
H-Index - 25
eISSN - 0974-598X
pISSN - 0970-2113
DOI - 10.4103/0970-2113.159590
Subject(s) - medicine , lung abscess , abscess , diaphragm (acoustics) , fistula , lung , etiology , differential diagnosis , pneumonia , surgery , radiology , pathology , physics , acoustics , loudspeaker
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.