Rare gallbladder parasitosis mimicking cholelithiasis: Dicrocoelium dendriticum
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PEDIATRIC SURGERY, cilt.18, sa.4, ss.280-281, 2008 (SCI-Expanded, Scopus)
- Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
- Cilt numarası: 18 Sayı: 4
- Basım Tarihi: 2008
- Doi Numarası: 10.1055/s-2007-989378
- Dergi Adı: EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PEDIATRIC SURGERY
- Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
- Sayfa Sayıları: ss.280-281
- Hacettepe Üniversitesi Adresli: Hayır
Özet
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.