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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author Ak, Çağatay
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description 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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spelling pubmed-96823732022-12-02 A Schistosoma Colitis Case Misdiagnosed as Ulcerative Colitis in a Non-Endemic Area: A Case Report Ak, Çağatay Sayar, Suleyman Kılıç, Ebru Tarıkçı Iran J Parasitol 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 patient diagnosed in 2021. Tehran University of Medical Sciences 2022 /pmc/articles/PMC9682373/ /pubmed/36466017 http://dx.doi.org/10.18502/ijpa.v17i3.10637 Text en Copyright © 2022 Ak et al. Published by Tehran University of Medical Sciences https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/). Non-commercial uses of the work are permitted, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Ak, Çağatay
Sayar, Suleyman
Kılıç, Ebru Tarıkçı
A Schistosoma Colitis Case Misdiagnosed as Ulcerative Colitis in a Non-Endemic Area: A Case Report
title A Schistosoma Colitis Case Misdiagnosed as Ulcerative Colitis in a Non-Endemic Area: A Case Report
title_full A Schistosoma Colitis Case Misdiagnosed as Ulcerative Colitis in a Non-Endemic Area: A Case Report
title_fullStr A Schistosoma Colitis Case Misdiagnosed as Ulcerative Colitis in a Non-Endemic Area: A Case Report
title_full_unstemmed A Schistosoma Colitis Case Misdiagnosed as Ulcerative Colitis in a Non-Endemic Area: A Case Report
title_short A Schistosoma Colitis Case Misdiagnosed as Ulcerative Colitis in a Non-Endemic Area: A Case Report
title_sort schistosoma colitis case misdiagnosed as ulcerative colitis in a non-endemic area: a case report
topic Case Report
url 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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