Abdominal Wall Mycetoma Presented as Obstructed Incisional Hernia of Cesarean Section in Eastern Sudan

Mycetoma a worldwide disease frequently occurs in the tropics with the highest prevalence being in Africa. Madurella mycetomatis is the main causative organism of human eumycetoma in Sudan. The legs and feet were commonly the sites of the infection. A 22-year-old lady was presented with painful abdo...

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Autores principales: Elhardello, Osama A., Adam, Elsadig S., Adam, Ishag
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2007
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1847505/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17485822
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2007/74643
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author Elhardello, Osama A.
Adam, Elsadig S.
Adam, Ishag
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description Mycetoma a worldwide disease frequently occurs in the tropics with the highest prevalence being in Africa. Madurella mycetomatis is the main causative organism of human eumycetoma in Sudan. The legs and feet were commonly the sites of the infection. A 22-year-old lady was presented with painful abdominal swelling around a previous caesarian section scar. A provisional diagnosis of obstructed incisional hernia was put. Histopathological examination revealed macroscopically four masses of soft tissue. Microscopic sections showed grains of Madurella mycetomatis.
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spelling pubmed-18475052007-04-16 Abdominal Wall Mycetoma Presented as Obstructed Incisional Hernia of Cesarean Section in Eastern Sudan Elhardello, Osama A. Adam, Elsadig S. Adam, Ishag Infect Dis Obstet Gynecol Case Report Mycetoma a worldwide disease frequently occurs in the tropics with the highest prevalence being in Africa. Madurella mycetomatis is the main causative organism of human eumycetoma in Sudan. The legs and feet were commonly the sites of the infection. A 22-year-old lady was presented with painful abdominal swelling around a previous caesarian section scar. A provisional diagnosis of obstructed incisional hernia was put. Histopathological examination revealed macroscopically four masses of soft tissue. Microscopic sections showed grains of Madurella mycetomatis. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2007 2007-03-07 /pmc/articles/PMC1847505/ /pubmed/17485822 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2007/74643 Text en Copyright © 2007 Osama A. Elhardello et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Elhardello, Osama A.
Adam, Elsadig S.
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Abdominal Wall Mycetoma Presented as Obstructed Incisional Hernia of Cesarean Section in Eastern Sudan
title Abdominal Wall Mycetoma Presented as Obstructed Incisional Hernia of Cesarean Section in Eastern Sudan
title_full Abdominal Wall Mycetoma Presented as Obstructed Incisional Hernia of Cesarean Section in Eastern Sudan
title_fullStr Abdominal Wall Mycetoma Presented as Obstructed Incisional Hernia of Cesarean Section in Eastern Sudan
title_full_unstemmed Abdominal Wall Mycetoma Presented as Obstructed Incisional Hernia of Cesarean Section in Eastern Sudan
title_short Abdominal Wall Mycetoma Presented as Obstructed Incisional Hernia of Cesarean Section in Eastern Sudan
title_sort abdominal wall mycetoma presented as obstructed incisional hernia of cesarean section in eastern sudan
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1847505/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17485822
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2007/74643
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