The formation of soft patches on the mucous membrane of a hollow organ, such as the urogenital tract or digestive tract.
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"Malakoplakia is a rare disease often associated with immunodeficiency and is characterized by the presence of intracellular inclusions and organisms due to deficient intracellular bacteriolysis." | ( Dickinson, J; Sandford-Smith, JH; Simpson, C; Strong, NP; Young, FI, 1992) |
"Renal parenchymal malacoplakia is a rare cause of renal failure." | ( Kohn, OF; Mokrzycki, MH; Yamase, H, 1992) |
"Malakoplakia is an uncommon form of inflammatory response, initially described as occurring in the urinary bladder." | ( Bessim, S; Deligdisch, L; Dottino, P; Gordon, RE; Heller, DS, 1991) |
"Malakoplakia is a rare granulomatous disease associated with coliform infections and an altered cellular immune response." | ( Allen, FJ; Heyns, CF; Jordaan, HF; Schneider, J, 1990) |
"Malacoplakia is an unusual granulomatous disease that most frequently affects the urinary tract, but also may affect other organ systems." | ( Kandzari, SJ; Rach, JF, 1989) |
"Malakoplakia is a chronic granulomatous inflammatory disorder." | ( Bear, RA; Biggar, WD; Cardella, C; Crawford, L; Gladman, D; Reynolds, WJ, 1985) |
"Renal malakoplakia is reported in an 11 year old girl with myelomeningocele and associated neuropathic bladder." | ( Charney, EB; Douglas, SD; Kalichman, MA; Kamani, N; Witzleben, CL, 1985) |
"Malacoplakia is a granulomatous disease that most frequently involves the urinary tract but also may involve the genital tract, gastrointestinal tract and retroperitoneum." | ( Chun, BK; Lynch, JH; Maxted, WC; Stanton, MJ, 1983) |
"Malacoplakia is a rare inflammatory disorder seen most often in the urinary tract, where it is highly associated with coliform infection." | ( Braun, DK; Killen, PD; Markovitz, DM; Mitchell, MA, 1994) |
"Malakoplakia is an inflammatory condition associated with persisting bacterial antigen in macrophages and characterized histologically by the Michaelis-Gutmann body, containing bacterial fragments." | ( Milford, DV; Raafat, F; Saleem, MA; White, RH, 1993) |
"Renal parenchymal malacoplakia is a rare cause of acute renal failure." | ( Chan, KW; Kung, WH; Li, R; Tam, VK, 2003) |
"Malacoplakia is a rare chronic inflammatory disease associated with infection and immunosuppression, and very few occurrences have been reported in the cerebrum." | ( Bernal, K; Poage, D; Prabhu, VC; Swindells, S; Toubes-Klingler, E, 2006) |
"Malakoplakia is a rare inflammatory condition seen in transplant patients." | ( Davis, JE; Erb, SR; Kim, PT; Steinbrecher, UP; Yoshida, EM, 2007) |
"Malacoplakia is a relatively rare form of chronic granulomatous inflammation." | ( Imanishi, O; Ito, R; Kondo, T; Taguchi, I; Terakawa, T; Tsunemori, H; Yamanaka, N, 2007) |
"Malakoplakia is an acquired granulomatous disorder first described by Michaelis and Gutmann in 1902." | ( Andrásovszky, Z; Baranyay, F; Knausz, J; Lipták, J, 2010) |
"Malakoplakia is an uncommon inflammatory condition usually affecting the genitourinary tract, which has been associated with infections, tumors, and immunocompromised states." | ( Boushi, LA; Douri, TH; Shawaf, AZ, 2010) |
"Malakoplakia is an inflammatory granulomatous disease induced by defective phagocytic activity of macrophage." | ( Daroux, M; Fleury, D; Frimat, M; Lemaitre, V; Mirault, T; Noel, LH; Vanhille, P, 2011) |
"Malakoplakia is a rare granulomatous disorder of unknown etiology and usually affects patients with underlying immunosuppression." | ( Cox, RM; El Jamal, SM; Lorsbach, RB; Malak, SF, 2011) |
"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." | ( Boucek, P; Honsova, E; Lodererova, A; Slatinska, J, 2012) |
"Malakoplakia is a rare chronic granulomatous disease of unknown cause." | ( David-Neto, E; Duarte, MI; Galvão, MM; Gamba, C; Leão, CA; Nahas, W; Pierrotti, LC; Ramos, JF; Rossi, F; Shikanai-Yasuda, MA, 2012) |
"Malakoplakia is a chronic granulomatous reaction characterized by the formation of Michaelis-Gutman bodies within von Hansemann macrophages." | ( Goldsworthy, M; Kuntz, CA; Nimmo, J; Rutland, BE; Simcock, JO; Simpson, KW, 2013) |
"Malakoplakia is a rare granulomatous disease that occurs commonly in the urinary tract and secondarily in the gastrointestinal tract." | ( Hyun, KH; Kim, DH; Shin, HD, 2013) |
"Cerebral malakoplakia is a very rare chronic inflammatory disease." | ( Abe, T; Fudaba, H; Fujiki, M; Kamida, T; Nagatomi, H; Ooba, H; Wakabayashi, Y, 2014) |
"Malacoplakia is a rare chronic inflammatory disease that most commonly involves the genitourinary tract with a wide spectrum of clinical presentation." | ( Audino, P; Cavallone, B; Di Stasio, A; Serao, A; Tiranti, D; Vota, P, 2018) |
"Malacoplakia is a rare disease." | ( Audino, P; Cavallone, B; Di Stasio, A; Serao, A; Tiranti, D; Vota, P, 2018) |
"Malakoplakia is a rare disease characterized by the presence of nongranulomatous macrophage infiltration." | ( Champion, L; Chemouny, JM; Daugas, E; Hanouna, G; Sannier, A; Vrtovsnik, F, 2018) |
"Malakoplakia is an unusual acquired granulomatous disease that can affect many systems including urogenital tract." | ( Hasan, A; Hina, S; Iqbal, N; Shabbir, MU; Sheikh, AAE, 2019) |
"Malakoplakia is a chronic granulomatous disease associated with incomplete clearance of bacterial pathogens." | ( Gandhi, RG; Holmes, NE; Kinsella, PM; Kotton, CN; Masia, R; Smibert, OC; Steven, M; Whitlam, JB, 2021) |
"Malakoplakia is a disorder usually related to other affections, like UTI and immunodepression, and it seem to be caused by an abnormal macrophage function." | ( Capretti, C; Costa, AM; Delle Fave, RF; Galosi, AB; Marronaro, A; Mazzaferro, D; Polisini, G; Quaresima, L, 2022) |
"Malakoplakia is a rare condition characterized by inflammatory masses with specific histological characteristics." | ( Arnaout, A; Devlin, K; Everett, KV; Harrison, TS; Hart, P; Heenan, S; Hurt, W; Patel, H; Pittman, A; Stone, N; Yates, TA, 2023) |
"Malakoplakia is uncommon but the diagnosis should be considered where soft tissue masses develop at the site of chronic or recurrent infections." | ( Arnaout, A; Devlin, K; Everett, KV; Harrison, TS; Hart, P; Heenan, S; Hurt, W; Patel, H; Pittman, A; Stone, N; Yates, TA, 2023) |
"Malakoplakia is a rare inflammatory disease of the urogenital tract." | ( Chen, SL; He, JH; Li, J; Li, Y; Wang, H; Zhang, XY, 2023) |
"Malacoplakia is a rare chronic granulomatous disease and frequently associated with Escherichia coli infection." | ( Chen, H; Dong, A; Zhao, Q; Zuo, C, 2023) |
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"A case is described of malakoplakia involving the urinary tract and retroperitoneum with recalcitrant infection due to Escherichia coli which was not responsive to seemingly appropriate antibiotics and surgery for drainage, but which subsequently responded to treatment with trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole." | ( Berlin, BB; Maderazo, EG; Morhardt, C, 1979) |
"Thus, malakoplakia can be cured by antibiotic treatment." | ( van Furth, R; van't Wout, JW; Wertheimer, PA; Zwartendijk, J, 1992) |
"A case of cutaneous malakoplakia in a 44-year-old women under immunosuppressive therapy after renal transplantation for nephrosclerosis is reported." | ( Baradad, M; Bombí, JA; Martín, E; Mascaró, JM; Palou, J; Torras, H, 1988) |
"Urinary malakoplakia may pursue an aggressive clinical course with persistent infection, despite seemingly appropriate antibiotic therapy." | ( Gupta, PK; Mendelsohn, G; Qualman, SJ, 1984) |
"The etiology of malakoplakia should be identified for each patient if appropriate treatment is to be given." | ( Bear, RA; Biggar, WD; Keating, A, 1981) |
"A case of renal malakoplakia associated with prednisone therapy is reported; clinical recovery had taken place 6 months later, after nephrectomy and cessation of corticosteroid administration." | ( Carney, GM; Faure, JJ; Price, SK, 1981) |
"We review the pathogenesis of malakoplakia and report a novel form of treatment successfully used in an 8-week-old infant with bilateral renal malakoplakia." | ( Milford, DV; Raafat, F; Saleem, MA; White, RH, 1993) |
"Even extensive malakoplakia can be successfully treated with ciprofloxacin." | ( Biesenbach, G; Eichbauer-Sturm, G; Grafinger, P; Höpfl, I; Janko, O; Syré, G, 1999) |
"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 treated with quinolones." | ( Boucek, P; Honsova, E; Lodererova, A; Slatinska, J, 2012) |
"Data in the literature suggest that malakoplakia has become even rarer since changes were made in the immunosuppressive therapy employed after kidney transplantation." | ( David-Neto, E; Duarte, MI; Galvão, MM; Gamba, C; Leão, CA; Nahas, W; Pierrotti, LC; Ramos, JF; Rossi, F; Shikanai-Yasuda, MA, 2012) |
"We present a rare case of rectosigmoid malakoplakia treated with fluoroquinolone." | ( Pandya, G; Petersson, F; Soh, NWY; Yen, JM, 2017) |