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Pyelonephritis xanthogranulomatosa is a peculiar manifestation of destructive interstitial nephritis which can be differentiated from other types of pyonephrosis exclusively by microscopic examination. Clinical symptomatology often points towards the existence of a renal tumor. The author analyses the clinical and radiological symptomatology of seven patients treated by him. The angiographic picture presented by pyelonephritis xanthogranulomatosa differs according to the character and extension of the inflammatory tissue lesion. The angiographic picture of the circumscribed and diffuse granular proliferative types resembles that of a poorly vascularised malignoma, whereas the destructive type resembles hydropyonephrosis.
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PMID:[A contribution to radiological diagnostics of xanthogranulomatous pyelonephritis (author's transl)]. 9 1