[Bladder malacoplakia with lymphatic involvement and an aggressive course].
Malacoplakia is an unusual chronical granulomatous disorder. In the urinary tract is more frequent in female, in 75 percent of cases involve the bladder. Pelvis extension of this disease is infrequent, and even less frequent is the involvement of pelvic and retroperitoneal lymph nodes. We present the second case in the literature of bladder malacoplakia with extravesical and pelvic node involvement.
Servicio de Urología, Hospital Ramón y Cajal, Madrid.
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Pozo Mengual
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Burgos Revilla
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Briones Mardones
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Linares Quevedo
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García-Cosio Piqueras
D000368:Aged; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D006099:Granuloma / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D008198:Lymph Nodes / Q000473:pathology; D008287:Malacoplakia / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology*; D013203:Staphylococcal Infections / Q000150:complications; D018746:Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome / Q000150:complications; D001745:Urinary Bladder Diseases / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology*; D001749:Urinary Bladder Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis