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DAVID H. JOHNSTON, M.D.

AMA Arch Intern Med. 1952;90(5):711-717.

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ACUTE necrosis of the renal papillae occurs in diabetic patients with acute pyelonephritis and in nondiabetic patients with urinary tract obstruction.¹ In a few patients, papillary necrosis has been encountered in the absence of diabetes and urinary tract obstruction.² However, acute pyelonephritis is a consistent finding.

In four instances, the occurrence of papillary necrosis has been recognized during life by histological examination of tissue passed in the urine.³ Alken,⁴ in Germany (1938), reported a case of papillary necrosis in a 50-year-old woman with painless hematuria. There was decreased function of the left kidney; Escherichia coli was found in the urine, and pyelography demonstrated a defect in the left upper calyx. Six months later, she returned with renal colic on the left. A portion of tissue was passed in the urine, and the diagnosis was made histologically. Recently, Knutsen and co-workers observed a patient for whom the diagnosis was established by . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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From the Departments of Pathology, Emory University School of Medicine and Grady Memorial Hospital.

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