malakoplakia
Chapter: 17
A chronic inflammation characterized histologically by infiltrates of macrophages that contain calcific, targetoid, round cytoplasmic inclusions (Michaelis-Gutmann bodies). It occurs most often in the urinary bladder, but may affect testes, kidneys or any other organ in the body. In the urinary bladder, malakoplakia presents as yellow plaques and induration of the bladder wall.