[Renal abscess perforated into the thorax].

OBJECTIVE

To present a case of secondary renal abscess to a xanthogranulomatosis pyelonephritis with perforation to chest that required nephrectomy and decortication left pleural.

METHODS AND

RESULTS

Patient feminine of 38 years that present infections from the tract urinary secondary to kidney lithiasis that evolve to a kidney abscess that you perforates to chest where you forms an abscess. It was treated with nephrectomy and drainage of chest abscess by chest tube, and later decortication, with good evolution.

CONCLUSIONS

The kidney abscess and/or xanthogranulomatosis pyelonephritis are the result of a lithiasis not treated obstruction that conditions to the appearance of urinary infection and posterior pyonephrosis and or kidney abscess. The not early detection of the kidney abscess conditions to the perforation to retroperitoneal, intra-abdominal and to chest. The early treatment of the abscess (antibiotics and percutaneous drainage) it can avoid the nephrectomy.