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Annals of Saudi medicine · Mar 2009
Review Case ReportsDisseminated peritoneal Schistosoma japonicum: a case report and review of the pathological manifestations of the helminth.
- Salah Al-Waheeb, Maryam Al-Murshed, Fareeda Dashti, Parsotam R Hira, and Lamia Al-Sarraf.
- Department of Histopathology, Kuwait University, Kuwait. salah.alwaheeb@gmail.com
- Ann Saudi Med. 2009 Mar 1; 29 (2): 149152149-52.
AbstractSchistosomiasis (also known as bilharzia, bilharziasis, bilharziosis or snail fever) is a human disease syndrome caused by infection from one of several species of parasitic trematodes of the genus Schistosoma. The three main species infecting humans are S haematobium, S japonicum, and S mansoni. S japonicum is most common in the far east, mostly in China and the Philippines. We present an unusual case of S japonicum in a 32-year-old Filipino woman who had schistosomal ova studding the peritoneal cavity and forming a mass in the right iliac fossa.
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