Malakoplakia in the Urinary Bladder

Seung Baik; Chul Sung Kim; Dong Hoon Lim

doi:10.14777/kjutii.2013.8.2.125

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Baik, Kim, and Lim: Malakoplakia in the Urinary Bladder

Case Report

Korean J Urogenit Tract Infect Inflamm 2013;8(2):125-128.

Published online: 17 October 2013

DOI: https://doi.org/10.14777/kjutii.2013.8.2.125

Malakoplakia in the Urinary Bladder

Seung Baik, Chul Sung Kim, Dong Hoon Lim

Department of Urology, College of Medicine, Chosun University, Gwangju, Korea

Correspondence to: Dong Hoon Lim Department of Urology, Chosun University Hospital, 365, Pilmun-daero, Dong-gu, Gwangju 501-717, Korea Tel: +82-62-220-3210, Fax: +82-62-232-3210 E-mail: dhlim@chosun.ac.kr

This study was supported by grants from Chosun University Hospital, 2013. No potential conflict of interest relevant to this article was reported.

Received 28 August 2013 Revised 27 September 2013 Accepted 28 September 2013

This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Abstract

Malakoplakia is a rare chronic granulomatous disease, which was originally described in the urinary bladder, but can involve many other organs and soft tissues. Malakoplakia is often associated with immunosuppression or immunodeficiency and is believed to be caused by an alternation in the bacterial phagocytic system. Histologically, the presence of Michaelis-Gutmann bodies is pathognomonic. We report on a case of malakoplakia of the bladder in a 62-year-old female.

Keywords: Malakoplakia, Urinary bladder

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Fig. 1.

Cystourethroscopy revealed multiple, soft, yellow plaques on the entire wall of the bladder.

Fig. 2.

Michaelis-Gutmann body (arrows) (×400).

Fig. 3.

Cystourethroscopy still revealed the presence of yellow mucosal lesions but their number and size was decreased.

Fig. 4.

No lesions were seen on a cystourethroscopy.

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