Emphysematous cystitis: An unusual disease of the Genito-Urinary system suspected on imaging

Emphysematous cystitis is a rare disease entity caused by gas fermenting bacterial and fungal pathogens. Clinical symptoms are nonspecific and diagnostic clues often arise from the unanticipated imaging findings. We report a case of 52-year-old male who presented with fever, dysuria and gross hematu...

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Autores principales: Bobba, Ravi K, Arsura, Edward L, Sarna, Pawanjit S, Sawh, Amar K
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2004
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC524183/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15462675
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1476-0711-3-20
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author Bobba, Ravi K
Arsura, Edward L
Sarna, Pawanjit S
Sawh, Amar K
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description Emphysematous cystitis is a rare disease entity caused by gas fermenting bacterial and fungal pathogens. Clinical symptoms are nonspecific and diagnostic clues often arise from the unanticipated imaging findings. We report a case of 52-year-old male who presented with fever, dysuria and gross hematuria who was found to have emphysematous cystitis.
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spelling pubmed-5241832004-10-24 Emphysematous cystitis: An unusual disease of the Genito-Urinary system suspected on imaging Bobba, Ravi K Arsura, Edward L Sarna, Pawanjit S Sawh, Amar K Ann Clin Microbiol Antimicrob Case Report Emphysematous cystitis is a rare disease entity caused by gas fermenting bacterial and fungal pathogens. Clinical symptoms are nonspecific and diagnostic clues often arise from the unanticipated imaging findings. We report a case of 52-year-old male who presented with fever, dysuria and gross hematuria who was found to have emphysematous cystitis. BioMed Central 2004-10-05 /pmc/articles/PMC524183/ /pubmed/15462675 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1476-0711-3-20 Text en Copyright © 2004 Bobba 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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Bobba, Ravi K
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Sarna, Pawanjit S
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Emphysematous cystitis: An unusual disease of the Genito-Urinary system suspected on imaging
title Emphysematous cystitis: An unusual disease of the Genito-Urinary system suspected on imaging
title_full Emphysematous cystitis: An unusual disease of the Genito-Urinary system suspected on imaging
title_fullStr Emphysematous cystitis: An unusual disease of the Genito-Urinary system suspected on imaging
title_full_unstemmed Emphysematous cystitis: An unusual disease of the Genito-Urinary system suspected on imaging
title_short Emphysematous cystitis: An unusual disease of the Genito-Urinary system suspected on imaging
title_sort emphysematous cystitis: an unusual disease of the genito-urinary system suspected on imaging
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC524183/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15462675
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1476-0711-3-20
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