[Renal malacoplakia: report of a new case].
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.
García Diez
Fructuoso
F
Servicio de Urología, Hospital de León, León, España. fructuosogarcia@yahoo.es
Benéitez Alvarez
Manuel E
ME
Guerreiro González
Rafael
R
Casasola Chamorro
Javier
J
Roa Luzuriaga
Juan Manuel
JM
de Blas Gómez
Victor
V
Gallo Rolanía
Francisco Javier
FJ
D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007674:Kidney Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery; D008287:Malacoplakia / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery