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Bilharzial Colonic Polyps: Case Presentation

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Last updated: 22 Jan 2023

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Endemic medicine

Abstract

Background: Schistosomiasis is a contagion caused by intestinal and urinary blood trematodes affecting around 200 million people worldwide. Adult worms colonize human blood vessels for years, successfully escaping the immune system while excreting hundreds to thousands of eggs daily. The chronic infection can cause anemia, retarded growth, hepatosplenomegaly, neurological sequlae and even death. For Diagnosis of schistosomiasis, microscopic examination of human wastes as well as tissues remains the gold standard owing to the characteristic shape and size of the eggs. Objective: to present a case of bilharzial polyps presented to endoscopy unit of the department of Tropical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Alexandria University, Egypt for colonoscopy and mistaken for IBD with suspicious polypoidal transfromation versus malignant process. Methodolgy: Snare polypectomy was done and tissues were sent for histopathological evaluation which revealed multiple fresh and calcified bilharzial ova seen in mucosa and submucosa. Conclusion: This unusual long standing case will give us the chance to recall schistosomiasis, its occurrence as colon polyps, clinical presentation and means of management.

DOI

10.21608/aeji.2020.29738.1079

Keywords

Schistosomiasis, colonoscopy, colonic polyps, ova

Authors

First Name

Naglaa

Last Name

Abd El-Latif

MiddleName

F

Affiliation

Department of Parasitology, Medical Research Institute, Alexandria University, Egypt.

Email

dr_naglaafathi@hotmail.com

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First Name

Essam

Last Name

Bedewy

MiddleName

Saaed

Affiliation

Department of Tropical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Alexandria, Egypt

Email

essambedewyclinic@gmail.com

City

Alexandria

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Volume

10

Article Issue

2

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14106

Issue Date

2020-06-01

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2020-05-08

Publish Date

2020-06-01

Page Start

233

Page End

236

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2090-7613

Online ISSN

2090-7184

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Case report

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622

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Afro-Egyptian Journal of Infectious and Endemic Diseases

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https://aeji.journals.ekb.eg/

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22 Jan 2023