Child with acute lobar nephronia

M Vijayakumar; N Prahlad; G Nandhini; N Prasad; S Muralinath

doi:10.4103/0971-4065.70847

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CASE REPORT

Year : 2010 | Volume : 20 | Issue : 3 | Page : 162-165

Child with acute lobar nephronia

M Vijayakumar¹, N Prahlad¹, G Nandhini², N Prasad², S Muralinath³
¹ Department of Pediatric Nephrology, Mehta Children's Hospital, Chennai - 600 031, India
² Department of Pediatric Surgery, Mehta Children's Hospital, Chennai - 600 031, India
³ Department of Pediatric Radiology, Mehta Children's Hospital, Chennai - 600 031, India

Correspondence Address:
M Vijayakumar
Pediatric Nephrologist, Mehta Children's Hospital, 2e, McNichols Road, 3rd Lane, Chetput, Chennai - 600 031
India

Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None

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DOI: 10.4103/0971-4065.70847

A five-year-old girl child presented to us with a history of two weeks high grade fever treated outside with intensive antibiotic therapy for an ultrasound abdomen finding of hypoechoic lesion in the midpole of the left kidney. As fever and sonographic findings persisted, a CT abdomen was done, which showed features of lobar nephronia but reported as Wilm's tumor. Child underwent open biopsy and the diagnosis of lobar nephronia was confirmed. Child was continued on antibiotics and fever and sonographic findings improved.

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