Pediatric gastrointestinal basidiobolomycosis mimicking malignancy

Basidiobolomycosis is a rare fungal infection with high prevalence in southwestern province of Saudi Arabia (Tohama region); it mainly causes subcutaneous infections and rarely gastrointestinal disease. Because of its indolent presentation, it is often misdiagnosed as IBD, tuberculosis or Malignancy...

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Autores principales: Almoosa, Zainab, Alsuhaibani, Mohammed, AlDandan, Sadeq, Alshahrani, Dayel
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2017
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5612808/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28970974
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mmcr.2017.08.002
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author Almoosa, Zainab
Alsuhaibani, Mohammed
AlDandan, Sadeq
Alshahrani, Dayel
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description Basidiobolomycosis is a rare fungal infection with high prevalence in southwestern province of Saudi Arabia (Tohama region); it mainly causes subcutaneous infections and rarely gastrointestinal disease. Because of its indolent presentation, it is often misdiagnosed as IBD, tuberculosis or Malignancy. We are reporting a 7 year old Saudi girl with abdominal mass, fever and eosinophilia resembling malignancy on radiological and pathological picture fully recovered with only medical therapy in the form of oral Voriconazole 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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spelling pubmed-56128082017-10-02 Pediatric gastrointestinal basidiobolomycosis mimicking malignancy Almoosa, Zainab Alsuhaibani, Mohammed AlDandan, Sadeq Alshahrani, Dayel Med Mycol Case Rep Case Report Basidiobolomycosis is a rare fungal infection with high prevalence in southwestern province of Saudi Arabia (Tohama region); it mainly causes subcutaneous infections and rarely gastrointestinal disease. Because of its indolent presentation, it is often misdiagnosed as IBD, tuberculosis or Malignancy. We are reporting a 7 year old Saudi girl with abdominal mass, fever and eosinophilia resembling malignancy on radiological and pathological picture fully recovered with only medical therapy in the form of oral Voriconazole 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Elsevier 2017-08-24 /pmc/articles/PMC5612808/ /pubmed/28970974 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mmcr.2017.08.002 Text en © 2017 Published by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of International Society for Human and Animal Mycology. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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Pediatric gastrointestinal basidiobolomycosis mimicking malignancy
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title_full Pediatric gastrointestinal basidiobolomycosis mimicking malignancy
title_fullStr Pediatric gastrointestinal basidiobolomycosis mimicking malignancy
title_full_unstemmed Pediatric gastrointestinal basidiobolomycosis mimicking malignancy
title_short Pediatric gastrointestinal basidiobolomycosis mimicking malignancy
title_sort pediatric gastrointestinal basidiobolomycosis mimicking malignancy
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5612808/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mmcr.2017.08.002
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