Pyelonephritis: Pyelonephritis is defined as infection and inflammation of the kidney and renal pelvis. Its diagnosis is clinical, and symptoms include back or flank pain with costovertebral angle tenderness on examination, fever (temperature higher than 38 °C), bacteriuria, and possibly nausea and vomiting.
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