Pseudospirochaetosis of the urinary bladder
| Autor: | P F Roberts, T H W Barker, Sudhanshu Chitale, N Burgess |
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| Rok vydání: | 2005 |
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Pathology
medicine.medical_specialty Giemsa stain Pathology and Forensic Medicine Diagnosis Differential Microsporidiosis medicine Humans Aged Aged 80 and over Short Reports/Case Reports Urinary bladder Urinary symptoms biology Urinary Bladder Diseases Spirochaeta General Medicine Enterocytozoon Helicobacter pylori biology.organism_classification medicine.disease Ciprofloxacin medicine.anatomical_structure Female Differential diagnosis Gram-Negative Bacterial Infections Urinary bladder disease Immunostaining medicine.drug |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Clinical Pathology. 58:437-438 |
| ISSN: | 0021-9746 |
| Popis: | This report describes an elderly patient with urinary symptoms who showed surface colonisation of the transitional mucosa of the bladder by an unusual haematoxophilic microorganism superficially resembling the “blue fuzz” seen in colonic biopsies showing intestinal spirochaetosis. Special stains showed that the organisms were Gram and Giemsa positive, weakly argyrophilic, and Ziehl-Nielsen negative. Immunostains were negative for Helicobacter pylori and electron microscopy revealed curious curved bodies, which were difficult to classify. Therefore, this condition was described as pseudospirochaetosis of the urinary bladder. The urinary symptoms regressed on treatment with ciprofloxacin. The clinicopathological relevance of these findings is discussed in the report. |
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