Gastrointestinal basidiobolomycosis: mimicking Crohn’s disease case report and review of the literature

Gastrointestinal basidiobolomycosis (GIB) is an unusual fungal infection that manifests in the skin and rarely involves other systems. All of the few cases of GIB reported so far were diagnosed with difficulty, necessitating laparotomy and resection of the inflamed part of the bowel. We report a chi...

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Autores principales: AlSaleem, Khalid, Al-Mehaidib, Ali, Banemai, Mohammed, bin-Hussain, Ibrahim, Faqih, Mousa, Al Mehmadi, Ahmed
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre 2013
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6074897/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24188947
http://dx.doi.org/10.5144/0256-4947.2013.500
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author AlSaleem, Khalid
Al-Mehaidib, Ali
Banemai, Mohammed
bin-Hussain, Ibrahim
Faqih, Mousa
Al Mehmadi, Ahmed
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description Gastrointestinal basidiobolomycosis (GIB) is an unusual fungal infection that manifests in the skin and rarely involves other systems. All of the few cases of GIB reported so far were diagnosed with difficulty, necessitating laparotomy and resection of the inflamed part of the bowel. We report a child with GIB who was successfully diagnosed endoscopically without surgical intervention.
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spelling pubmed-60748972018-09-21 Gastrointestinal basidiobolomycosis: mimicking Crohn’s disease case report and review of the literature AlSaleem, Khalid Al-Mehaidib, Ali Banemai, Mohammed bin-Hussain, Ibrahim Faqih, Mousa Al Mehmadi, Ahmed Ann Saudi Med Case Report Gastrointestinal basidiobolomycosis (GIB) is an unusual fungal infection that manifests in the skin and rarely involves other systems. All of the few cases of GIB reported so far were diagnosed with difficulty, necessitating laparotomy and resection of the inflamed part of the bowel. We report a child with GIB who was successfully diagnosed endoscopically without surgical intervention. King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre 2013 /pmc/articles/PMC6074897/ /pubmed/24188947 http://dx.doi.org/10.5144/0256-4947.2013.500 Text en Copyright © 2013, Annals of Saudi Medicine This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) .
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Faqih, Mousa
Al Mehmadi, Ahmed
Gastrointestinal basidiobolomycosis: mimicking Crohn’s disease case report and review of the literature
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title_full Gastrointestinal basidiobolomycosis: mimicking Crohn’s disease case report and review of the literature
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title_full_unstemmed Gastrointestinal basidiobolomycosis: mimicking Crohn’s disease case report and review of the literature
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