Malakoplakia is a rare inflammatory disorder that affects predominantly the urinary tract and kidneys. Isolated renal parenchymal involvement occurs in 16% of all cases [1]. Urinary tract and digestive malakoplakia have been reported in transplant recipients but involvement in transplant tissue is rare. We report a case of renal allograft parenchymal malakoplakia and present a brief review of k...

Although malakoplakia has been reported to occur at various body sites, pancreatic malakoplakia with simultaneous colonic involvement is very rare. Lesions of malakoplakia can masquerade as tumor masses leading to unwanted resections. Nevertheless, malakoplakia can occur in association with frank carcinomas, especially in the colon. By reporting a case of pancreatic malakoplakia diagnosed by fi...

Malakoplakia is a rare acquired disease that can affect many systems but is more common in the urogenital tract. Cutaneous malakoplakia is even rarer. It is far more frequent in immunodeficient patients. We report a case of cutaneous malakoplakia in a kidney transplant patient who had recently stopped receiving immunosuppressive therapy to illustrate a review of the relevant recent literature.

BACKGROUND Malakoplakia is an unusual chronic inflammatory disease with distinctive histopathological features rarely involving the parenchyma of a transplanted kidney, and to date less than ten cases have been reported. METHODS AND RESULTS We present a case of malakoplakia of a kidney graft in a 31 year old woman after simultaneous kidney and pancreas transplantation, which was successfully ...

Renal malakoplakia (RM) is a rare granulomatous disorder of adults, with less than 8 cases reported in pediatric age group in the literature. Published cases of RM were collected form the archival literature by searching the MEDLINE database and by reviewing bibliographic references contained in articles on renal malakoplakia. Ninety-six cases of RM have been published over the past 37 years. R...

A case of malakoplakia and papillary urothelial carcinoma of the urinary bladder is reported. In this case, malakoplakia was an incidental finding in a biopsy of the urinary bladder of a 74-yr old female, who presented with hematuria. The biopsy showed a low-grade papillary urothelial carcinoma in close association with malakoplakia. This is a rare association of these lesions.

The chance finding of two cases of undiagnosed malakoplakia in the files of the Department of Pathology, Queen's University Belfast prompted a systematic study of all cases of inflammatory testicular and epididymal disease diagnosed in that department during a 43-year period from 1934 to 1977. A total of 71 cases was studied, and no additional example of malakoplakia was found. In the Belfast c...

Malakoplakia in an acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) patient with disseminated Mycobacterium simiae infection presented with a large pelvic mass that caused organ dysfunction from mimicking a tumor. Malakoplakia is a rare, chronic granulomatous abnormal host response toward infectious agents, presenting as a tumor-like lesion. This is the first report of pelvic malakoplakia after dissem...

The gastrointestinal tract is the most common site for malakoplakia outside the urinary tract. A variety of conditions co-exists with malakoplakia including inflammatory bowel disease, systemic lupus erythematosus, immunodeficiency and tuberculosis. Rarely, it is associated with colonic adenocarcinoma or adenomas. We report a case of malakoplakia in association with colonic adenocarcinoma.

INTRODUCTION Malakoplakia is an unusual chronic inflammatory disease. Malakoplakia of the bladder and ureter is quite rare. CASE PRESENTATION We present a case of a young male diagnosed as malakoplakia of urinary bladder and ureter. He presented with bilateral hydroureteronephrosis. The patient underwent left ureterocystotomy. Again, he was admitted after a gap of ten years and with features ...