Liver, spleen, pancreas and kidney involvement by human fascioliasis: imaging findings

BACKGROUND: Fasciola hepatica primarily involves the liver, however in some exceptional situations other organs have been reported to be involved. The ectopic involvement is either a result of Parasite migration or perhaps eosinophilic reaction. CASE PRESENTATION: Here we report a known case of mult...

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Autores principales: Zali, Mohammad Reza, Ghaziani, Tahereh, Shahraz, Saeed, Hekmatdoost, Azita, Radmehr, Ali
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2004
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC517498/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15294025
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-230X-4-15
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author Zali, Mohammad Reza
Ghaziani, Tahereh
Shahraz, Saeed
Hekmatdoost, Azita
Radmehr, Ali
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description BACKGROUND: Fasciola hepatica primarily involves the liver, however in some exceptional situations other organs have been reported to be involved. The ectopic involvement is either a result of Parasite migration or perhaps eosinophilic reaction. CASE PRESENTATION: Here we report a known case of multiple myeloma who was under treatment with prednisolone and melphalan. He was infected by Fasciola hepatica, which involved many organs and the lesions were mistaken with metastatic ones. DISCUSSION: Presented here is a very unusual case of the disease, likely the first case involving the pancreas, spleen, and kidney, as well as the liver.
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spelling pubmed-5174982004-09-17 Liver, spleen, pancreas and kidney involvement by human fascioliasis: imaging findings Zali, Mohammad Reza Ghaziani, Tahereh Shahraz, Saeed Hekmatdoost, Azita Radmehr, Ali BMC Gastroenterol Case Report BACKGROUND: Fasciola hepatica primarily involves the liver, however in some exceptional situations other organs have been reported to be involved. The ectopic involvement is either a result of Parasite migration or perhaps eosinophilic reaction. CASE PRESENTATION: Here we report a known case of multiple myeloma who was under treatment with prednisolone and melphalan. He was infected by Fasciola hepatica, which involved many organs and the lesions were mistaken with metastatic ones. DISCUSSION: Presented here is a very unusual case of the disease, likely the first case involving the pancreas, spleen, and kidney, as well as the liver. BioMed Central 2004-08-04 /pmc/articles/PMC517498/ /pubmed/15294025 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-230X-4-15 Text en Copyright © 2004 Zali et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Zali, Mohammad Reza
Ghaziani, Tahereh
Shahraz, Saeed
Hekmatdoost, Azita
Radmehr, Ali
Liver, spleen, pancreas and kidney involvement by human fascioliasis: imaging findings
title Liver, spleen, pancreas and kidney involvement by human fascioliasis: imaging findings
title_full Liver, spleen, pancreas and kidney involvement by human fascioliasis: imaging findings
title_fullStr Liver, spleen, pancreas and kidney involvement by human fascioliasis: imaging findings
title_full_unstemmed Liver, spleen, pancreas and kidney involvement by human fascioliasis: imaging findings
title_short Liver, spleen, pancreas and kidney involvement by human fascioliasis: imaging findings
title_sort liver, spleen, pancreas and kidney involvement by human fascioliasis: imaging findings
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC517498/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15294025
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-230X-4-15
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