Brucellar terminal ileitis and epididymo-orchitis in an adolescent; case report and review of the literature
| Autor: | Fatma Zehra Oztek-Celebi, Melahat Melek Oguz |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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medicine.medical_specialty Adolescent Terminal Ileitis Orchitis Brucella Microbiology Brucellosis Virology Humans Medicine Epididymo orchitis Colitis Epididymitis biology business.industry Genitourinary system General Medicine Ileitis medicine.disease biology.organism_classification Dermatology Infectious Diseases Acute abdomen Parasitology medicine.symptom business |
| Zdroj: | The Journal of Infection in Developing Countries. 12:919-921 |
| ISSN: | 1972-2680 |
| DOI: | 10.3855/jidc.10429 |
| Popis: | Although brucellosis is a multi-systemic illness, terminal ileitis or colitis due to brucellosis is reported anecdotal in literature. Genitourinary manifestations of Brucella, namely epididymo-orchitis is very rare in childhood brucellosis. Herein, we present a case of brucellosis in a child with a rare combination of terminal ileitis and epididymo-orchitis not reported previously in the literature. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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