title: [Renal malacoplakia: report of a new case].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Malacoplakia is a chronic granulomatous disease which can involve different areas of the body, being the genital renal system the most frequent site. We describe a case of unilateral renal malacoplakia.
  
  
  RESULTS
  We report the case of a female patient with the clinical working diagnosis of renal cell carcinoma that required drainage of a homolateral abscess which cultured positive for E. Coli. Nephrectomy was performed. Pathologic study showed the presence of Michaelis-Gutmann bodies, patognomonic of malacoplakia.
authors.affiliation: Servicio de Urología, Hospital de León, León, España. fructuosogarcia@yahoo.es
authors.forename: Fructuoso
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: García Diez
authors.forename: Manuel E
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Benéitez Alvarez
authors.forename: Rafael
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Guerreiro González
authors.forename: Javier
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Casasola Chamorro
authors.forename: Juan Manuel
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Roa Luzuriaga
authors.forename: Victor
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: de Blas Gómez
authors.forename: Francisco Javier
authors.initials: FJ
authors.lastname: Gallo Rolanía
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007674:Kidney Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery; D008287:Malacoplakia / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery