Retroperitoneal Cyst: An Uncommon Presentation of Filariasis

Primary retroperitoneal parasitic cysts are rare. Here we report about a middle aged male patient from rural north India with a recent onset of central abdominal retroperitoneal lump, pain, and fever. After surgical resection due to diagnostic uncertainty, at histopathology, it turned out be a filar...

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Autores principales: Ganesan, Senthil, Galodha, Saurabh, Saxena, Rajan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4668310/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26664759
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/674252
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description Primary retroperitoneal parasitic cysts are rare. Here we report about a middle aged male patient from rural north India with a recent onset of central abdominal retroperitoneal lump, pain, and fever. After surgical resection due to diagnostic uncertainty, at histopathology, it turned out be a filarial cyst. After receiving a course of diethylcarbamazine, the patient is asymptomatic at 4 months' follow-up.
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spelling pubmed-46683102015-12-10 Retroperitoneal Cyst: An Uncommon Presentation of Filariasis Ganesan, Senthil Galodha, Saurabh Saxena, Rajan Case Rep Surg Case Report Primary retroperitoneal parasitic cysts are rare. Here we report about a middle aged male patient from rural north India with a recent onset of central abdominal retroperitoneal lump, pain, and fever. After surgical resection due to diagnostic uncertainty, at histopathology, it turned out be a filarial cyst. After receiving a course of diethylcarbamazine, the patient is asymptomatic at 4 months' follow-up. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015 2015-11-19 /pmc/articles/PMC4668310/ /pubmed/26664759 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/674252 Text en Copyright © 2015 Senthil Ganesan 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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title_short Retroperitoneal Cyst: An Uncommon Presentation of Filariasis
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4668310/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/674252
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