Rare gallbladder parasitosis mimicking cholelithiasis: Dicrocoelium dendriticum

SOYER T., Turkmen F., Tatar N., BOZDOĞAN Ö., KUL O., YAĞMURLU E. A., ...More

EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PEDIATRIC SURGERY, vol.18, no.4, pp.280-281, 2008 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier identifier

  • Publication Type: Article / Article
  • Volume: 18 Issue: 4
  • Publication Date: 2008
  • Doi Number: 10.1055/s-2007-989378
  • Journal Name: EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PEDIATRIC SURGERY
  • Journal Indexes: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Page Numbers: pp.280-281
  • Hacettepe University Affiliated: No

Abstract

Choleithiasis is increasingly diagnosed in childhood and infancy. Biliary parasites are the rarest cause of cholelithiasis in all age groups. We present a twelve-year-old girl with non-hemolytic gallbladder stone and discuss the clinical features and differential diagnosis of Dicrocoelium dendriticum (DD) invasion that causes and/or mimics cholelithiasis in children.