Human infection with Dicrocoelium dendriticum in Turkey
 
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Makale Türü Açık Erişim Diğer (Teknik, not, yorum, vaka takdimi, editöre mektup, özet, kitap krıtiği, araştırma notu, bilirkişi raporu ve benzeri) (SCI, SSCI, AHCI, SCI-Exp dergilerinde yayınlanan teknik not, editöre mektup, tartışma, vaka takdimi ve özet türünden makale)
Dergi Adı Annals of Saudi Medicine
Dergi ISSN 0975-4466
Dergi Tarandığı Indeksler SCI-Expanded
Makale Dili İngilizce Basım Tarihi 01-2010
Kabul Tarihi 12-04-2026 Yayınlanma Tarihi
Cilt / Sayı / Sayfa 30 / 2 / 159–161 DOI 10.4103/0256-4947.60525
Makale Linki https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2855070/
Özet
Human dicrocoeliosis is reported sporadically in various parts of the world. We report a case in a 21-year-old male, who had right upper abdominal pain, weight loss, and chronic relapsing watery diarrhea three to four times daily for four weeks. The patient had abdominal tenderness to palpation in the right upper quadrant. Alkaline phosphatase, alanine aminotransferase, and serum immunoglobulin E levels were slightly elevated; all other biochemical and hematological findings were in their normal ranges. The duodenal biopsy samples were normal and an abdominal ultrasonography showed no biliary or hepatic abnormality. Stool microscopy revealed numerous eggs of Dicrocoelium dendriticum. As pseudoparasitosis can result from eating raw, infected animal liver, the patient was given a liver-free diet for three days, to rule out that possibility. Subsequent stool examinations showed eggs in each of the samples …
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Human infection with Dicrocoelium dendriticum in Turkey

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