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Published on: December 9, 2014
[Pseudotumoral toxoplasmic cystitis revealing acquired immunodeficiency syndrome]
Raluca Ples1, Frédéric Méchaï, Bernard Champiat
1Service d'anatomie et de cytologie pathologiques, université Paris-Sud, hôpital de Bicêtre, Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France.
Abstract:
A case of bladder toxoplasmosis in a 57-year-old male Caucasian patient was diagnosed with difficulty due to misleading clinical presentation. The patient presented with pollakiuria and urination burning. Imagery showed pseudotumoral thickening of the vesicle wall. Previously unknown status of HIV infection was found positive through the diagnosis of bladder toxoplasmosis. The patient died rapidly from neurological complications. This is the second published case in which bladder toxoplasmosis reveals an HIV infection.
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