Amebic colonic stricture: An unusual presentation

Entamoeba histolytica infection can lead to colitis, peri-colic abscess, ameboma, perforation and rarely colonic stricture. Amebic colitis is usually managed with medical management and rarely needs surgical management. We hereby report a case of colonic amebiasis, presenting as a stricture in trans...

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Autores principales: Varshney, Vaibhav Kumar, Soni, Subhash Chandra, Yadav, Taruna, Puranik, Ashok, Elhence, Poonam
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6329265/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30693215
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/tp.TP_40_18
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author Varshney, Vaibhav Kumar
Soni, Subhash Chandra
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Puranik, Ashok
Elhence, Poonam
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description Entamoeba histolytica infection can lead to colitis, peri-colic abscess, ameboma, perforation and rarely colonic stricture. Amebic colitis is usually managed with medical management and rarely needs surgical management. We hereby report a case of colonic amebiasis, presenting as a stricture in transverse colon, mimicking malignancy, and managed successfully.
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spelling pubmed-63292652019-01-28 Amebic colonic stricture: An unusual presentation Varshney, Vaibhav Kumar Soni, Subhash Chandra Yadav, Taruna Puranik, Ashok Elhence, Poonam Trop Parasitol Dispatches Entamoeba histolytica infection can lead to colitis, peri-colic abscess, ameboma, perforation and rarely colonic stricture. Amebic colitis is usually managed with medical management and rarely needs surgical management. We hereby report a case of colonic amebiasis, presenting as a stricture in transverse colon, mimicking malignancy, and managed successfully. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2018 2018-12-27 /pmc/articles/PMC6329265/ /pubmed/30693215 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/tp.TP_40_18 Text en Copyright: © 2018 Tropical Parasitology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Varshney, Vaibhav Kumar
Soni, Subhash Chandra
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Elhence, Poonam
Amebic colonic stricture: An unusual presentation
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title_full Amebic colonic stricture: An unusual presentation
title_fullStr Amebic colonic stricture: An unusual presentation
title_full_unstemmed Amebic colonic stricture: An unusual presentation
title_short Amebic colonic stricture: An unusual presentation
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topic Dispatches
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6329265/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30693215
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/tp.TP_40_18
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