A 25-year-old female patient reports urinary frequency with pain on urination, flank pain, fever, and chills. The nurse recognizes these symptoms as characteristic of which condition?
a. Cystitis
b. Dysuria
c. Pyelonephritis
d. Urethritis
ANS: C
These are symptoms of pyelonephritis, characterized by fever, dysuria, flank pain, and urinary frequency.
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