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[Malacoplakia. Apropos of a case of retroperitoneal site]
G Coutant1, J P Robin, P De Saint-Maur
1Service de Médecine Interne, Hôpital de la Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris.
La Revue De Medecine Interne
|February 1, 1993
Abstract:
Malacoplakia is a granulomatous inflammatory disease caused by a disorder of macrophage bactericidal function. The disease, histologically characterized by the presence of Michaelis-Gutmann bodies, has a preference for the urogenital tract and less frequently affects the gastrointestinal tract and the retroperitoneal region. We report the unusual case of a male patient who presented with retroperitoneal pseudotumoral malacoplakia associated with vesical malacoplakia. The main pathophysiological, diagnostic and therapeutic aspects of this rare disease are described.