Malakoplakia of the Neck: A Mass Mimicking a Malignancy on Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography

ABS TRACT In the head-neck region, experiencing infectious, inflammatory, and malignant masses is a common fact.However, some pathologies are rarely seen in the head and neck area, and one of them is malakoplakia.Malakoplakia is generally a slow-growing benign tumor in the urogenital region.Diagnosis is made microscopically with the appearance of Michaelis-Guttman bodies.This case report presents a 32-year-old patient with a history of early-stage tongue squamous cell cancer.In the routine follow-up of the patient, a mass with similar features to malignancy and a definitive pathological diagnosis of malakoplakia was detected.In this case report, the characteristics of the patient and the mass are discussed comprehensively.