A patient with intestinal amoebiasis and cutaneous amoebic ulcer.
This paper reports a patient with intestinal amoebiasis in concomitant with amoebic ulcer in the thigh. The ulcer was suspected to be carcinoma, complicated cutaneous leishmaniasis or due to free-living amoebae. The diagnosis was confirmed by the pathological and parasitological demonstration of haematophagous trophozoites of E. histolytica. The patient was successfully treated with Metronidazole.
Morsy
Tosson A
TA
Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt.
Mangoud
Amal M
AM
Saleh
Wafaa A
WA
D000328:Adult; D000818:Animals; D000981:Antiprotozoal Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D004748:Entamoeba histolytica / Q000187:drug effects / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D004749:Entamoebiasis / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy; D006801:Humans; D007411:Intestinal Diseases, Parasitic / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy; D008297:Male; D008795:Metronidazole / Q000627:therapeutic use; D012883:Skin Ulcer / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000469:parasitology*; D013848:Thigh
D000981:Antiprotozoal Agents; D008795:Metronidazole