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Hepatosplenic and small bowel calcification due to Schistosoma mansoni infection
S Radhakrishnan1, B al Nakib, R Sivanandan
1Department of Gastroenterology, Al Amiri Teaching Hospital, Kuwait.
Digestive Diseases and Sciences
|December 1, 1988
Abstract:
Schistosoma mansoni infection is not known to produce radiologically visible calcification. In this report, we describe extensive hepatosplenic and intestinal calcification due to S. mansoni infection, demonstrated by abdominal plain x-ray and CT scan with histopathological confirmation.