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Case Report
A Case of Xanthogranulomatous Pyelonephritis in Child
Sa-Young Kim, Byung-Mun Lee, Soo-Young Kim, Hee-Joo Jeon, Chan-Yung Kim
Clin Exp Pediatr. 1993;36(2):273-279.   Published online February 15, 1993
Xanthogranulomatous pyelonephritis, and uncommon chronic inflammatory renal disorder of middle-aged women, is rarely seen in childhood. A 10 year-old boy with focal type of this disease in upper and lower pole was experienced. Patient had a intermittent fever and right flank pain without palpable mass. The blood analysis only revealed ESR increase but no anemia, no leukocytosis. There nothing abnormal....
Original Article
A case of xanthogranulomatous pyelonephritis misdiagnosed as Wilms' tumor.
Hyung Shim Chang, Hyung Doo Lee, Young Ho Lee, Woo Taek Kim, An Hong Choi, Jin Han Yoon, Jin Sook Jeong
Clin Exp Pediatr. 1991;34(11):1612-1617.   Published online November 30, 1991
Xanthogranulomatous pyelonephritis is an uncommon form of pyelonephritis that is usually seen in middle-aged women and is much rarer in children. We report a case of focal xanthogranulomatous pyelonephritis in a 3-month-old boy, which misdiagnosed as Wilms’ tumor and successfully treated with total nephrectomy and long-term antibiotic therapy.
A case of xanthogranulomatous pyelonephritis.
Jin Oh Kim, Soo Young Cho, Joo Hyung Kim, Dae Yeol Lee, Jung Soo Kim
Clin Exp Pediatr. 1991;34(3):413-418.   Published online March 31, 1991
Xanthogranulomatous pyelonephritis is an atypical form of severe chronic renal parenchymal infection, which can be mistaken for tumor or other inflammatory renal disease due to similar clinical manifestations. This disease was classified into three stages based on the extent of involvement of renal and adjacent tissue by the xanthogranulomatous process. In stage I (nephric), the characteristic xantho- granulomatous inflammatory process is confined to the kidney. The...