Tuberk Toraks 2014;62(3):248-252 Pulmonary malakoplakia: a case report and review of the literature 248 INTRODUCTION Malakoplakia is a rare inflammatory condition characterized by the accumulation of aggregates of his iocytes t that contain concentrically layered basophilic inclusions called Michaelis-Gutmann bodies. It w as first wa described by Michaelis and Gutmann in 1902 and later by Von Hanseman who named the lesion as “m malako- m plakia” meaning “soft plaque”. It is usually an infectious process associated with a variety of bacterial inf ections fe and has been associated with immunocompromised states. Malakoplakia can form tumor-like nodu es that l clinically simulate malignancy in a variety of organs. It is commonly a disease of urinary tract, but it may nvolve i any organ such as colon, stomach, lung, liver, bone, uterus, and skin (1). The occurrence of malakop akia in pl lung is not common and a total of 38 cases have been reported in the current English written literature (2-28). In this paper, we aimed to present a case of pulmonary malakoplakia in a renal transplant recipient and to review the literature. Pulmonary malakoplakia: a case report and review of the literature doi  10.5578/tt.7840 Tuberk Toraks 2014;62(3):248-252 Geliş Tarihi/ Received: 04.06.2014  Kabul Ediliş Tarihi/ Accepted: 26.06.2014 ED İ TÖRE MEKTUP LETTER TO THE EDITOR Deniz KÖKSAL 1 Ayşenaz ÖZCAN 2 Funda DEMİRAĞ 3 Beril AKMAN 4 Leyla N esrin ACAR 5 Erkmen GÜLHAN 5 Özlem ÖZMEN 6 1 Department of Chest Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, Hacettepe Univers ty, it Ankara, Turkey 1 Hacettepe Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi, Göğüs Hastalıkları Anabilim Dalı, A Ankara, A Türkiye 2 Department of Chest Diseases, Ankara Ataturk Chest Diseases and Ches t st Surgery Training and Research Hospital, Ankara, Turkey 2 Ankara Atatürk Göğüs Hastalıkları ve Göğüs Cerrahisi Eğitim ve Araştırm a m Hastanesi, Göğüs Hastalıkları Kliniği, Ankara, Türkiye 3 Department of Patology, Ankara Ataturk Chest Diseases and Chest Surg ery ge Training and Research Hospital, Ankara, Turkey 3 Ankara Atatürk Göğüs Hastalıkları ve Göğüs Cerrahisi Eğitim ve Araştırm a m Hastanesi, Patoloji Kliniği, Ankara, Türkiye 4 Department of Nephrology, Ankara Guven Hospital, Ankara, Turkey 4 Ankara Güven Hastanesi, Nefroloji Bölümü, Ankara, Türkiye 5 Department of Chest Surgery, Ankara Ataturk Chest Diseases and Chest Surgery t S Training and Research Hospital, Ankara, Turkey 5 Ankara Atatürk Göğüs Hastalıkları ve Göğüs Cerrahisi Eğitim ve Araştırm a m Hastanesi, Göğüs Cerrahisi Kliniği, Ankara, Türkiye 6 Department of Nuclear Medicine, Ankara Ataturk Chest Diseases and C hest Ch Surgery Training and Research Hospital, Ankara, Turkey 6 Ankara Atatürk Göğüs Hastalıkları ve Göğüs Cerrahi̇si̇ Eği̇ti̇m ve Araştırm a m Hastanesi̇, Nükleer Tıp Bölümü, Ankara, Türkiye Dr. Deniz KÖKSAL Hacettepe Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi, Göğüs Hastalıkları Anabilim Dalı, ANKARA - TURKEY e-mail: deniz_koksal@yahoo.com Yazışma Adresi (Address for Correspondence)