Megacolon due to Chronic Schistosomiasis: A Case Report and Review of Literature

Although Schistosoma infection in humans commonly involves the intestines, megacolon is a rare finding. We report a 47-year-old patient who was found to have chronic megacolon. After failing conservative management, he underwent extended hemicolectomy with colorectal anastomosis. The colon pathology...

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Autores principales: Alzahrani, Amer R., Alawfi, Homoud, Almeman, Sara, Altayeb, Thamer, Al-Dorzi, Hasan M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi 2019
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6431392/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30963015
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2019/4036823
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author Alzahrani, Amer R.
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Almeman, Sara
Altayeb, Thamer
Al-Dorzi, Hasan M.
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description Although Schistosoma infection in humans commonly involves the intestines, megacolon is a rare finding. We report a 47-year-old patient who was found to have chronic megacolon. After failing conservative management, he underwent extended hemicolectomy with colorectal anastomosis. The colon pathology revealed chronic schistosomiasis and Schistosoma serology was positive.
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spelling pubmed-64313922019-04-08 Megacolon due to Chronic Schistosomiasis: A Case Report and Review of Literature Alzahrani, Amer R. Alawfi, Homoud Almeman, Sara Altayeb, Thamer Al-Dorzi, Hasan M. Case Rep Surg Case Report Although Schistosoma infection in humans commonly involves the intestines, megacolon is a rare finding. We report a 47-year-old patient who was found to have chronic megacolon. After failing conservative management, he underwent extended hemicolectomy with colorectal anastomosis. The colon pathology revealed chronic schistosomiasis and Schistosoma serology was positive. Hindawi 2019-03-06 /pmc/articles/PMC6431392/ /pubmed/30963015 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2019/4036823 Text en Copyright © 2019 Amer R. Alzahrani et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under 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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Megacolon due to Chronic Schistosomiasis: A Case Report and Review of Literature
title Megacolon due to Chronic Schistosomiasis: A Case Report and Review of Literature
title_full Megacolon due to Chronic Schistosomiasis: A Case Report and Review of Literature
title_fullStr Megacolon due to Chronic Schistosomiasis: A Case Report and Review of Literature
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title_short Megacolon due to Chronic Schistosomiasis: A Case Report and Review of Literature
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6431392/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2019/4036823
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