title: [Follicular cystitis. Case report and bibliographic review].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To report one case of chronic follicular cystitis and to perform a bibliographic review on this pathology.
  
  
  METHODS
  We report a case of a 70-year-old woman with an irritative voiding syndrome over an eight-month period, with several previous episodes of urinary tract infection treated by her family doctor. Bullous lesions were found in the bladder mucosa on cystoscopy. Histological tests showed lymphoid follicles at the level of the bladder mucosa, leading to the diagnosis of follicular cystitis.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Medical treatment was carried out with ciprofloxacin, vitamin A, and prednisone, which led to symptom remission.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Follicular cystitis is an entity that belongs to the group of chronic cystopathies; it is a non-specific chronic inflammatory disease characterized by the presence of large number of plasmatic cells and lymphocytes in lymphoid follicles within the bladder mucosa and submucosa; pathologic study is necessary for the final diagnosis of this entity.
authors.affiliation: Servicio de Urología, Hospital Infanta Cristina, España. jesus_mateo@terra.es
authors.forename: Jesús
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Mateos Blanco
authors.forename: Fátima
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Lallave Martín
authors.forename: Antonio
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ramírez Zambrana
authors.forename: Eduardo
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Laguna Alvarez
authors.forename: María José
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Toledo Serrano
authors.forename: Carmen
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Parra Pérez
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D003556:Cystitis / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans