[Malacoplakia in the endometrium. A rare cause of postmenopausal bleeding]

Malacoplakia of the endometrium and the rest of the female genital tract is rare. The condition is usually postmenopausal, and an important clinical finding is vaginal bleeding. Clinically, what is actually malacoplakia is often suspected to be a malignant disease. Pathologically, however, malacoplakia is easily distinguishable from carcinoma, owing to the typical, light colour of the swear when examined under the microscope, showing. Histiocytes with abundant eosinophilic granular cytoplasm and varying degrees of intracellular and extracellular Michaelis-Gutman bodies. As far as we know, we describe the first case in Norway of postmenopausal bleeding in a 78 year old woman, caused by malacoplakia of the endometrium.