Article: Malacoplakia of the ovary, fallopian tube and uterus associated with diabetes.

2003 FEB 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- According to recent research from Taiwan, "Malacoplakia is a chronic xanthogranulomatous inflammation that most commonly affects the urinary tract and the gastrointestinal system of middle-aged women. It is rarely encountered in a female genital tract, and only a handful of cases of malacoplakia of the ovary have been described. We report an unusual case of malacoplakia extensively involving the ovary, fallopian tube and uterus of a 47-year-old woman with poorly controlled diabetes mellitus."

"Escherichia coli was cultured from the ovarian lesion," reported Shih-Cheng Chou and collaborators at Veterans General Hospital ...

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