A review of the literature on extraurinary malakoplakia is followed by the description of a typical case, located in the rectum, whose clinical and rectoscopic features suggested the existence of neoplastic disease. This condition should therefore be borne in mind in the course of differential diagnosis of anorectal tumors.
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