Fulminant necrotizing amoebic colitis.
The emergence of amoebiasis is of great public health concern since it has the potential to become endemic in developed nations essentially due to increased travel to endemic areas, emigration of people from affected nations and increase in the HIV-AIDS population. Fulminant necrotizing amoebic colitis is a rare and relatively less-known form of amoebiasis typically associated with very high morbidity and mortality, as is presented in the current case.
Department of Radiology, Institute of Liver & Biliary Sciences, D-1, Vasant Kunj, New Delhi 110070, India. aroradrankur@yahoo.com
Ankur
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Arora
Sonia
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Sandip
Amar
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Mukund
Yashwant
Y
Patidar
D000208:Acute Disease; D004404:Dysentery, Amebic / Q000473:pathology*; D004748:Entamoeba histolytica / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009336:Necrosis