Cryptosporidiosis of the biliary tract mimicking pancreatic cancer in an AIDS patient.
Diarrhea caused by Cryptosporidium sp is frequent in patients with AIDS, but involvement of other organs of the digestive tract is uncommon. We report a case of Cryptosporidium-associated obstruction of the biliary tract mimicking cancer of the head of the pancreas in a 43-year-old woman with AIDS.
de Souza
Lenice do Rosário
Ldo R
Departamento de Doenças Tropicais e Diagnóstico por Imagem, Faculdade de Medicina de Botucatu, Universidade do Estado de São Paulo, Botucatu, SP. lsouza@fmb.unesp.br
Rodrigues
Maria Aparecida M
MA
Morceli
José
J
Kemp
Raphael
R
Mendes
Rinaldo Poncio
RP
D017088:AIDS-Related Opportunistic Infections / Q000175:diagnosis*; D000328:Adult; D000818:Animals; D002779:Cholestasis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000469:parasitology*; D003457:Cryptosporidiosis / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D010190:Pancreatic Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*