The radiological spectrum of acute pyelonephritis in adults and adolescents.
Excretory urograms of 40 patients with a clinical and laboratory diagnosis of acute pyelonephritis were reviewed. Eleven (28%) had abnormal urograms attributable to the acute disease process. Of the 11 abnormal patients, 7 had obvious urographic abnormalities, while in 4 the findings were few and subtle. The most common findings were renal enlargement, decreased density of contrast material, delayed calyceal appearance time, and dilatation of the collecting system; of these, the last two most frequently correlated with the clinically abnormal side.
D000208:Acute Disease; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D004108:Dilatation, Pathologic; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007668:Kidney / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011704:Pyelonephritis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D011859:Radiography; D014517:Ureteral Obstruction / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging