title: Renal botryomycosis.
abstract: A case of visceral botryomycosis which arose in the left kidney of a 60-year-old woman is reported. This is the fifth reported case of renal botryomycosis which, in this patient, was mistaken clinically for a renal carcinoma. The lesion was composed of confluent abscesses containing 'sulphur granule-like' lesions in which irregularly lobed aggregates of Gram-negative organisms surrounded by an eosinophilic capsule were noted. Awareness of this unusual lesion is important because of its histopathological similarity to actinomycosis.
authors.affiliation: Department of Histopathology, Blackburn Royal Infirmary, UK.
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Richmond
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Mene
mesh_terms: D004927:Escherichia coli Infections / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D006099:Granuloma / Q000382:microbiology* / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D007674:Kidney Diseases / Q000382:microbiology* / Q000473:pathology; D008875:Middle Aged; D013492:Suppuration / Q000382:microbiology