Kidney disease presenting with cutaneous fistula is a rare condition. We present a case of a 90-year-old woman with dementia who had no prior urological problems and had a cutaneous fistula in the left lumbar region. A fistulogram and computer tomography examination revealed a large staghorn calculus with signs of xanthogranulomatous pyelonephritis in the left kidney and renal fistulisation to ...

Renocutaneous fistulae may occur as a result of chronic infection, especially in the setting of calculous disease.1 Spontaneous renocutaneous is rare.2 Usually nephrocutanous fistula developed in patient with previous renal surgery, trauma, tumors, and chronic urinary tract infection with abscess formation. We report a case of spontaneous nephrocutaneous fistula. A 37-year-old women previously ...

Xanthogranulomatous pyelonephritis is a severe, rare, form of chronic pyelonephritis characterized by the destruction of the renal parenchyma and replacement by granulomatous tissue.This disease has been called as the “great imitator” because clinical and radiological findings often mimics other inflammatory or neoplastic renal disorders leading to diagnostic challenge before histopathologic an...

A rare case of nephrococutaneous fistula due to spontaneous expulsion of renal calculi is described. A 45-year-old man presented with urinary leakage from an ulcer over the left lumbar region for the last 3 months after a history of spontaneous expulsion of stones from this area. Ultrasonography abdomen revealed a small contracted kidney with multiple calculi in the kidney and renal pelvis, sin...