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Bilateral emphysematous pyelonephritis resolving to medical therapy: demonstration by US and CT

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Emphysematous pyelonephritis (EPN) is an uncommon and life-threatening necrotizing infection of the renal parenchyma occurring mostly in diabetic patients. It is usually unilateral. Nephrectomy is the current therapeutic procedure. We report the plain radiograph, US and CT findings in a 26-year-old diabetic woman who presented with bilateral EPN and was cured by medical treatment alone.

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  1. Centre hospitalier Lyon Sud, Services de radiologie A et B, F-69 310 Pierre Bénite, France, FR

    F. Grozel, Y. Berthezène, V. A. Tran-Minh & M. Croisille

  2. Centre hospitalier Lyon Sud, Réanimation médicale Sud, F-69 310 Pierre Bénite, France, FR

    C. Guérin

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  1. F. Grozel
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  2. Y. Berthezène
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Received 31 May 1996; Revision received 17 September 1996; Accepted 16 October 1996

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Grozel, F., Berthezène, Y., Guérin, C. et al. Bilateral emphysematous pyelonephritis resolving to medical therapy: demonstration by US and CT. Eur Radiol 7, 844–846 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/s003300050216

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