title: Rare gallbladder parasitosis mimicking cholelithiasis: Dicrocoelium dendriticum.
abstract: Cholelithiasis 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatric Surgery, Kirikkale University, Faculty of Medicine, Kirikkale, Turkey. tutku@sanalofis.net
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Soyer
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Turkmen
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Tatar
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Bozdogan
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Kul
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Yagmurlu
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Cakmak
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002769:Cholelithiasis / Q000175:diagnosis*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004011:Dicrocoeliasis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D005705:Gallbladder Diseases / Q000469:parasitology* / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D014463:Ultrasonography