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==Microscopic==
==Microscopic==
Features:<ref>{{Ref PBoD|1027}}</ref>
Features:<ref>{{Ref PBoD|1027}}</ref>
*Basophilic calcified lysosomes (Michaelis-Gutmann bodies) -- '''key feature'''.
**May be inside or outside of macrophages - often size of [[RBC]] or larger.
*Large foamy macrophages with granular cytoplasm.
*Large foamy macrophages with granular cytoplasm.
*Occasional multinucleated giant cell.
*Occasional multinucleated giant cell.
*Lymphocytes.  
*Lymphocytes.  
*Basophilic calcified lysosomes (Michaelis-Gutmann bodies).
**May be inside or outside of macrophages - often size of [[RBC]] or larger.


Images:
Images:
*[http://www.pathconsultddx.com/pathCon/largeImage?pii=S1559-8675(06)70342-4&figureId=fig5&ecomponentId=mmc5 Malakoplakia (pathconsultddx.com)]
*[http://www.pathconsultddx.com/pathCon/largeImage?pii=S1559-8675(06)70342-4&figureId=fig5&ecomponentId=mmc5 Malakoplakia (pathconsultddx.com)]
*[http://granuloma.homestead.com/malakoplakia_bladder_s92-4486e.jpg Malakoplakia (granuloma.homstead.com)].
*[http://granuloma.homestead.com/malakoplakia_bladder_s92-4486e.jpg Malakoplakia (granuloma.homstead.com)].
*[http://www.gfmer.ch/selected_images_v2/detail_list.php?cat1=13&cat3=342&stype=d Michaelis-Gutmann bodies (gfmer.ch)].


==See also==
==See also==

Revision as of 05:22, 9 September 2010

Malakoplakia is a thingy that typically arises in the bladder.

Gross

  • Yellow mass.[1]
    • May mimic renal cell carcinoma.

Microscopic

Features:[2]

  • Basophilic calcified lysosomes (Michaelis-Gutmann bodies) -- key feature.
    • May be inside or outside of macrophages - often size of RBC or larger.
  • Large foamy macrophages with granular cytoplasm.
  • Occasional multinucleated giant cell.
  • Lymphocytes.

Images:

See also

References

  1. URL: http://www.pathconsultddx.com/pathCon/diagnosis?pii=S1559-8675(06)70719-7. Accessed on: 9 September 2010.
  2. Cotran, Ramzi S.; Kumar, Vinay; Fausto, Nelson; Nelso Fausto; Robbins, Stanley L.; Abbas, Abul K. (2005). Robbins and Cotran pathologic basis of disease (7th ed.). St. Louis, Mo: Elsevier Saunders. pp. 1027. ISBN 0-7216-0187-1.