Pulmonary malakoplakia associated with immunodeficiency by HTLV-1 and HIV

• Main Authors: Manuela Madruga, Janaina Nagel, Cristiane Bedran Milito, José Carlos Morais
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Patologia Clínica 2014-08-01
• Series: Jornal Brasileiro de Patologia e Medicina Laboratorial
• Subjects: malacoplaquia; imunodeficiência; HTLV-1; HIV; infecção pulmonar; Rhodococcus equi
• Online Access: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1676-24442014000400296&lng=en&tlng=en

Malakoplakia is a rare chronic inflammatory disease often confused with neoplasia. In this paper we report two cases of pulmonary Malakoplakia, both with typical clinical diagnosis of tuberculosis and lung cancer. A patient with human T-lymphotropic virus type I (HTLV-1) and diagnosis of adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma, and another patient with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), which was treated for tuberculosis, but, after pulmonary lobectomy, was evidenced Rodococosis equi, progressed to death.