title: Pyelonephritis mimicking colitis on CT: case report.
abstract: We report a patient with acute pyelonephritis in whom the dominant computed tomographic findings were ascending colon and cecal wall thickening and pericolonic fat stranding, likely related to contiguous inflammation from the right kidney. To our knowledge, this is the first report of acute pyelonephritis affecting the right colon mimicking colitis on computed tomography.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, University of California San Francisco, 505 Parnassus Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94143-0628, USA.
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Burck
authors.forename: B M
authors.initials: BM
authors.lastname: Yeh
authors.forename: B N
authors.initials: BN
authors.lastname: Joe
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Qayyum
authors.forename: F V
authors.initials: FV
authors.lastname: Coakley
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003092:Colitis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007668:Kidney / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D011704:Pyelonephritis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014513:Ureter / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging