MALAKOPLAKIA OF STOMACH - REPORT OF A CASE AND REVIEW OF LITERATURE

  • 1 January 1978
    • journal article
    • research article
    • Vol. 102  (3) , 136-139
Abstract
A case of malakoplakia of the stomach associated with well-differentiated adenocarcinoma of the transverse colon was studied by light microscopy and EM. The gross appearance consisted of a slightly elevated plaque with umbillication of the covering mucosa. Histologically, the lesion was composed of submucosal proliferation of histiocytes with the typical cytoplasmic inclusions known as Michaelis-Gutmann bodies, Ultrastructurally, these inclusions had a dense central calcified body and concentric alternating rings. Twenty-four cases of gastrointestinal malakoplakia from the literature, including 2 cases of gastric malakoplakia, were reviewed.