BACKGROUND Malakoplakia is a rare chronic granulomatous disease associated with gramnegative infection,predominantly by Escherichia coli.It is induced by defective phagolysosomal activity of the macrophages.Malakoplak...
Introduction: Malakoplakia is a rare acquired granulomatous inflammatory condition. Microscopically it is characterized by sheets of histiocytes with abundant eosinophilic granular cytoplasm (known as von Hansemann ce...
To the Editor: A 26-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital because of a 4-day history of fever (39.3℃), accompanied by red urine, urinary frequency, odynuria, urgency, bilateral flank pain, and 2 days of anur...
Malakoplakia is an uncommon chronic inflammatory disease usually affecting the urogenital tract and often associated with the infection due to?E. coli. It is characterised by the presence of Von Hansemann cells and in...
Malakoplakia is a rare granulomatous disease probably caused by infection and characterized histologically by Michaelis-Gutmann bodies.We report a more rarely seen case esophageal malakoplakia in a 54-year-old woman.S...
Malakoplakia, typically involving the urinary tract, is an uncommon form of chronic inflammation caused by chronic infections and characterized by accumulation of macrophages. It has also been found in many other site...