Renal papillary necrosis is asso-ciated with many conditions-for example, urinary tract
obstruction, diabetes mellitus, pyelonephritis, analgesic abuse and sickle cell …

NECROSIS of the renal papillae was apparently recorded ht by Friedreich (1877) and it is
evident from recent reviews (Edmondson et al., 1947; Knutsen et al., 1952) that the lesion …

Papillary necrosis of the kidney is reported infrequently in the literature and is only rarely
diagnosed during life. During the past year, we have encountered 3 morphologically proved …

Renal papillary necrosis is generally thought to be a special form of acute pyelonephritis,
characterized by coagulative necrosis of the renal papillae, sometimes extending into …

I\ecrosis of the renal papilla is a serious complication of pyelonephritis and occurs most
often in patients\\· ith urinary obstruction, or hoth. 2 Renal papil! ary necrosis was first …

Of a total of sixty-six patients with renal papillary necrosis, only five had diabetes and eight
had urinary tract obstruction, whereas fifty-three had neither diabetes nor urinary tract …

Although this condition was first described by Friedreich1 in 1877, it is only during the past
13 years that definite attempts have been made to separate this disease from pyelonephritis …

THE term" renal papillary necrosis" signifies an ischemic infarction of the renal pyramid. The
process was first described by Friedreich in 1877 in a patient with associated …

In the vast majority of cases of renal papillary necrosis reported prior to 1958, the patients
had an acute, rapidly progressive and fatal disorder in which urologic investigation was of …

Necrosis of the renal papillae is an uncommon lesion in adults, and, judging from the
scarcity of reports in the literature, must be even less common in childhood. In adults it is …