Cutaneous malakoplakia: case report and review*

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 stopp...

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Autores principales: Afonso, João Paulo Junqueira Magalhães, Ando, Patricia Naomi, Padilha, Maria Helena Valle de Queiroz, Michalany, Nilceo Schwery, Porro, Adriana Maria
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Sociedade Brasileira de Dermatologia 2013
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3754379/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23793204
http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/abd1806-4841.20131790
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author Afonso, João Paulo Junqueira Magalhães
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Michalany, Nilceo Schwery
Porro, Adriana Maria
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description 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.
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spelling pubmed-37543792013-09-16 Cutaneous malakoplakia: case report and review* Afonso, João Paulo Junqueira Magalhães Ando, Patricia Naomi Padilha, Maria Helena Valle de Queiroz Michalany, Nilceo Schwery Porro, Adriana Maria An Bras Dermatol Case Report 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. Sociedade Brasileira de Dermatologia 2013 /pmc/articles/PMC3754379/ /pubmed/23793204 http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/abd1806-4841.20131790 Text en ©2013 by Anais Brasileiros de Dermatologia http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Afonso, João Paulo Junqueira Magalhães
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Porro, Adriana Maria
Cutaneous malakoplakia: case report and review*
title Cutaneous malakoplakia: case report and review*
title_full Cutaneous malakoplakia: case report and review*
title_fullStr Cutaneous malakoplakia: case report and review*
title_full_unstemmed Cutaneous malakoplakia: case report and review*
title_short Cutaneous malakoplakia: case report and review*
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topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3754379/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23793204
http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/abd1806-4841.20131790
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