A Schistosoma Colitis Case Misdiagnosed as Ulcerative Colitis in a Non-Endemic Area: A Case Report

The differential diagnosis of bloody diarrhea is necessary to specify etiology and plan treatment. Misdiagnosis can lead to catastrophic results with the treatments to be given. In this case report, we present a case of schistosomal colitis mimicking ulcerative colitis in a 26-year-old Guinean male...

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Autores principales: Ak, Çağatay, Sayar, Suleyman, Kılıç, Ebru Tarıkçı
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Tehran University of Medical Sciences 2022
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9682373/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36466017
http://dx.doi.org/10.18502/ijpa.v17i3.10637
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Sumario:The differential diagnosis of bloody diarrhea is necessary to specify etiology and plan treatment. Misdiagnosis can lead to catastrophic results with the treatments to be given. In this case report, we present a case of schistosomal colitis mimicking ulcerative colitis in a 26-year-old Guinean male patient diagnosed in 2021.

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