Schistosomal peritonitis: a rare cause of acute abdomen
| Autor: | Constantinos Alexiou, Georgios Antsaklis, Timothy Sakellaridis, Athanasios Fotopoulos, Maria Demonakou, Eleftheria Konstantinidou |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2009 |
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Male medicine.medical_specialty Helminthiasis Peritonitis Schistosomiasis medicine Animals Humans Schistosomiasis mansoni/*complications/diagnosis Schistosoma Abdomen Acute biology business.industry Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health General Medicine Greater omentum medicine.disease biology.organism_classification Dermatology Appendicitis Schistosomiasis mansoni Surgery Abdomen Acute/*parasitology Infectious Diseases medicine.anatomical_structure Acute abdomen Peritonitis/diagnosis/*parasitology Abdomen Parasitology medicine.symptom business |
| Popis: | Schistosomiasis is a major parasitic infection of tropical areas. We present a 26-year-old male immigrant from Egypt with acute abdomen due to schistosomial infection, mimicking symptoms of acute appendicitis, with histopathological detection and representation of schistosomial eggs in the unusual area of the greater omentum. This is a rare case with findings of intra-peritoneal schistosoma ova. We review the pertinent literature and indicate the need for a new approach to infectious diseases with unusual clinical presentation, due to pathogens coming from distal geographical regions, in which surgeons must keep a high index of suspicion. Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg |
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