Encrusted Cystitis Secondary to Corynebacterium glucuronolyticum in a 57-Year-Old Man Without Predisposing Factors.

Encrusted cystitis is a rare condition characterized by encrustation of the bladder mucosa with associated chronic inflammation induced by urea-splitting bacterial infection--most commonly, Corynebacterium urealyticum. Moreover, it usually occurs in immunocompromised patients, especially recipients...

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Published in:Laboratory Medicine Vol. 46; no. 2; pp. 136 - 140
Main Authors: Curry, Chelsea R., Saluja, Karan, Das, Sanchita, Thakral, Beenu, Dangle, Pankaj, Keeler, Thomas C., Watkin, William G.
Format: case study diagnostic images pictorial Journal Article
Published: Oxford University Press / USA Spring2015
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