title: [Malacoplakia of the urethra].
abstract: The fourth case of malakoplakia of the urethra is reported in a 20 year-old female patient. As a rule the malakoplakia is diagnosed pathologic-anatomical like special form of a proliferative inflammation and be reputed to be a local lysosomal macrophage defect with disturbed cellular immune answer. The importance of a differential diagnostical clarification against a granular neuroma and of tumor markers is emphasized.
authors.affiliation: Urologische Klinik Bezirkskrankenhauses Hoyerswerda.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Hausmann
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: vd Linde
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D014408:Biomarkers, Tumor / Q000032:analysis; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007150:Immunohistochemistry; D008287:Malacoplakia / Q000473:pathology*; D014521:Urethra / Q000473:pathology; D014522:Urethral Diseases / Q000473:pathology*; D014523:Urethral Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology
chemical_list: D014408:Biomarkers, Tumor
vernacular_title: Malakoplakie der Urethra.