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[Renal malacoplakia: report of a new case]
Fructuoso García Diez1, Manuel E Benéitez Alvarez, Rafael Guerreiro González
1Servicio de Urología, Hospital de León, León, España. fructuosogarcia@yahoo.es
Archivos Espanoles De Urologia
|April 2, 2005
Abstract
Objectives:
Malacoplakia is a chronic granulomatous disease which can involve different areas of the body, being the genital renal system the most frequent site. We describe a case of unilateral renal malacoplakia.
Methods/Results:
We report the case of a female patient with the clinical working diagnosis of renal cell carcinoma that required drainage of a homolateral abscess which cultured positive for E. Coli. Nephrectomy was performed. Pathologic study showed the presence of Michaelis-Gutmann bodies, patognomonic of malacoplakia.