Rare gallbladder parasitosis mimicking cholelithiasis: Dicrocoelium dendriticum.
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.
Soyer
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Department of Pediatric Surgery, Kirikkale University, Faculty of Medicine, Kirikkale, Turkey. tutku@sanalofis.net
Turkmen
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F
Tatar
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Bozdogan
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O
Kul
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O
Yagmurlu
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A
Cakmak
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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