Pediatric Vulvar Bleeding due to Leech Infestation: A Case Report

Leech infestation most frequently occurs in upper body cavities of children including pharynx, nose and esophagus and, more rarely, the vagina and vulva. Here we describe a 6-yr-old girl with vulvar bleeding caused by leech infestation that referred to the Emergency unit of the Booali Sina Hospital...

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Autores principales: ZIAEI HEZARJARIBI, Hajar, FAKHAR, Mahdi, YALVEH, Rezvan, MOUSAVI, Sayed Abdollah, BANIMOSTAFAVI, Elham Sadat
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Tehran University of Medical Sciences 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6348210/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30697323
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author ZIAEI HEZARJARIBI, Hajar
FAKHAR, Mahdi
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MOUSAVI, Sayed Abdollah
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description Leech infestation most frequently occurs in upper body cavities of children including pharynx, nose and esophagus and, more rarely, the vagina and vulva. Here we describe a 6-yr-old girl with vulvar bleeding caused by leech infestation that referred to the Emergency unit of the Booali Sina Hospital in Sari, Iran in Sep 2015. She had a history of swimming in a pond prior to the occurrence. The leech infestation particularly vulvar involvement among young girls is extremely rare and yet neglected event in the world.
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spelling pubmed-63482102019-01-29 Pediatric Vulvar Bleeding due to Leech Infestation: A Case Report ZIAEI HEZARJARIBI, Hajar FAKHAR, Mahdi YALVEH, Rezvan MOUSAVI, Sayed Abdollah BANIMOSTAFAVI, Elham Sadat Iran J Parasitol Case Report Leech infestation most frequently occurs in upper body cavities of children including pharynx, nose and esophagus and, more rarely, the vagina and vulva. Here we describe a 6-yr-old girl with vulvar bleeding caused by leech infestation that referred to the Emergency unit of the Booali Sina Hospital in Sari, Iran in Sep 2015. She had a history of swimming in a pond prior to the occurrence. The leech infestation particularly vulvar involvement among young girls is extremely rare and yet neglected event in the world. Tehran University of Medical Sciences 2018 /pmc/articles/PMC6348210/ /pubmed/30697323 Text en Copyright© Iranian Society of Parasitology & Tehran University of Medical Sciences http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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ZIAEI HEZARJARIBI, Hajar
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Pediatric Vulvar Bleeding due to Leech Infestation: A Case Report
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title_short Pediatric Vulvar Bleeding due to Leech Infestation: A Case Report
title_sort pediatric vulvar bleeding due to leech infestation: a case report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6348210/
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