Calcification of the large bowel in schistosomiasis demonstrated by computed tomography.
Four cases are described in which large bowel calcification was demonstrated on CT. All four patients had mixed infection by Schistosoma haematobium and mansoni, the latter being responsible for this abnormality. Intestinal calcification by S. mansoni is unusual, but is especially well demonstrated by computed tomography.
al-Hindawi
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Radiology Department, Amiri Hospital, Kuwait.
Whitehouse
G H
GH
Al-Ansari
A G
AG
Kamel
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H
Soni
C R
CR
D000328:Adult; D002114:Calcinosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006801:Humans; D007420:Intestine, Large / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012555:Schistosomiasis mansoni / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed