Atypical manifestation of cat-scratch disease: isolated epigastric pain in an immunocompetent, 12-year-old child

We present a 12-year-old immunocompetent girl with hepato splenic cat-scratch disease (CSD). Her sole inaugural complaint was isolated epigastric pain. She fully recovered, with normalized abdominal CT scan following 2 weeks course of Azythromycin®. CSD should be included in differential diagnosis i...

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Autores principales: Kayemba-Kay’s, Simon, Kovács, Tamas, Rakotoharinandrasana, Iarolalao, Benosman, Sidi Mohamed
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd 2015
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4527821/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26273467
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.304
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author Kayemba-Kay’s, Simon
Kovács, Tamas
Rakotoharinandrasana, Iarolalao
Benosman, Sidi Mohamed
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description We present a 12-year-old immunocompetent girl with hepato splenic cat-scratch disease (CSD). Her sole inaugural complaint was isolated epigastric pain. She fully recovered, with normalized abdominal CT scan following 2 weeks course of Azythromycin®. CSD should be included in differential diagnosis in children with epigastric pain, especially in those with domestic pets.
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spelling pubmed-45278212015-08-13 Atypical manifestation of cat-scratch disease: isolated epigastric pain in an immunocompetent, 12-year-old child Kayemba-Kay’s, Simon Kovács, Tamas Rakotoharinandrasana, Iarolalao Benosman, Sidi Mohamed Clin Case Rep Case Reports We present a 12-year-old immunocompetent girl with hepato splenic cat-scratch disease (CSD). Her sole inaugural complaint was isolated epigastric pain. She fully recovered, with normalized abdominal CT scan following 2 weeks course of Azythromycin®. CSD should be included in differential diagnosis in children with epigastric pain, especially in those with domestic pets. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd 2015-07 2015-06-13 /pmc/articles/PMC4527821/ /pubmed/26273467 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.304 Text en © 2015 The Authors. Clinical Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes.
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Atypical manifestation of cat-scratch disease: isolated epigastric pain in an immunocompetent, 12-year-old child
title Atypical manifestation of cat-scratch disease: isolated epigastric pain in an immunocompetent, 12-year-old child
title_full Atypical manifestation of cat-scratch disease: isolated epigastric pain in an immunocompetent, 12-year-old child
title_fullStr Atypical manifestation of cat-scratch disease: isolated epigastric pain in an immunocompetent, 12-year-old child
title_full_unstemmed Atypical manifestation of cat-scratch disease: isolated epigastric pain in an immunocompetent, 12-year-old child
title_short Atypical manifestation of cat-scratch disease: isolated epigastric pain in an immunocompetent, 12-year-old child
title_sort atypical manifestation of cat-scratch disease: isolated epigastric pain in an immunocompetent, 12-year-old child
topic Case Reports
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