Rodney U. Anderson, MD FACS
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Medical therapy alone for the treatment of gas forming intrarenal abscess.
J Urol. 1994; (2): 398-400
Gas forming renal infections are severe, potentially lethal conditions. Gas formation in an intrarenal abscess is extremely rare. Formerly, these patients were uniformly treated by a combined medical and surgical approach. We describe 2 patients with intrarenal gas abscess who were successfully treated with antibiotics alone. We review the literature concerning intrarenal gas abscess and propose a pathophysiological mechanism for its formation as well as a treatment schema.
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