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The aims of this study were as follows 1. to retrospectively determine key demographic and clinical features of XGP among benign nephrectomies; 2. to assess the CT preoperative diagnostic accuracy; and 3. to define the imaging characteristics of the CT stage. Material and Methods: A retrospective review of clinical, laboratory, and radiological features and operative methods of patients who underwent benign nephrectomy with histologically proven XGP was performed. Results: XPG was diagnosed in 18 patients over a 4-year (2018\u20132022) period. XGP represented 43.90% among benign nephrectomies. The mean age of the patients was 63 years, and the sex prevalence was higher in women (72.22%). Symptoms were vague and not specifically referrable to urinary tract disorders and unilateral (100%), with the left kidney affected in 61.11% of cases. Staghorn calculi and stone disease were the most common underlying cause (72.22%). All patients underwent CT. The preoperative CT imaging accuracy for renal inflammatory disease was 94.44% and indeterminate in 5.56%. A suspected diagnosis of XGP was formulated in 66.67% (12\/18; 2 stage II\/10 stage III), meanwhile, in 33.33% (6 patients with stage I), a non-specific diagnosis of renal inflammatory disease was formulated. CT was reported according to the Malek and Elder classification and staged in the stage I nephric form (33.33%), stage II perinephric form (11.11%), stage III paranephric form (55.56%). Conclusions: The CT diagnostic accuracy for kidney inflammatory disease was extremely high, whereas the suspected diagnosis of XGP was formulated preoperatively in only 66.67% of high-stage disease, where the hallmarks of invasiveness and fistulization of the pathology increased the diagnostic confidence.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/diagnostics13071340","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,4,4]],"date-time":"2023-04-04T02:03:00Z","timestamp":1680573780000},"page":"1340","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":15,"title":["MDCT Diagnosis and Staging of Xanthogranulomatous Pyelonephritis"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"13","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-0455-0256","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Stefania","family":"Tamburrini","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Radiology, Ospedale del Mare-ASL NA1 Centro, Via Enrico Russo 11, 80147 Naples, Italy"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Rosita","family":"Comune","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Precision Medicine, Section of Radiology and Radiotherapy, University of Campania \u201cLuigi Vanvitelli\u201d, 80128 Naples, Italy"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Giulia","family":"Lassandro","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Radiology, Ospedale del Mare-ASL NA1 Centro, Via Enrico Russo 11, 80147 Naples, Italy"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Filomena","family":"Pezzullo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Radiology, Ospedale del Mare-ASL NA1 Centro, Via Enrico Russo 11, 80147 Naples, Italy"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Carlo","family":"Liguori","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Radiology, Ospedale del Mare-ASL NA1 Centro, Via Enrico Russo 11, 80147 Naples, Italy"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Valeria","family":"Fiorini","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Radiology, Ospedale del Mare-ASL NA1 Centro, Via Enrico Russo 11, 80147 Naples, Italy"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Stefano Giusto","family":"Picchi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Radiology, Ospedale del Mare-ASL NA1 Centro, Via Enrico Russo 11, 80147 Naples, Italy"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Marina","family":"Lugar\u00e0","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Internal Medicine, Ospedale del Mare-ASL NA1 Centro, Via Enrico Russo 11, 80147 Naples, Italy"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Dario","family":"Del Biondo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Urology, Ospedale del Mare-ASL NA1 Centro, Via Enrico Russo 11, 80147 Naples, Italy"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Salvatore","family":"Masala","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Medical, Surgical and Experimental Sciences, University of Sassari, 07100 Sassari, Italy"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Fabio","family":"Tamburro","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Radiology, Ospedale del Mare-ASL NA1 Centro, Via Enrico Russo 11, 80147 Naples, Italy"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Mariano","family":"Scaglione","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Medical, Surgical and Experimental Sciences, University of Sassari, 07100 Sassari, Italy"},{"name":"James Cook University Hospital, Middlesbrough TS4 3BW, UK"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,4,4]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"273","DOI":"10.1053\/j.ackd.2015.04.004","article-title":"The new epidemiology of nephrolithiasis","volume":"22","author":"Shoag","year":"2015","journal-title":"Adv. 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