000			02198nam a22002657a 4500
003			OSt
005			20240305193717.0
008			221011b |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d
028			_bPhone: +255 28 298 3384
028			_b Fax: +255 28 298 3386
028			_b Email: vc@bugando.ac.tz
028			_b Website: www.bugando.ac.tz
040			_cDLC
041			_aEnglish
100			_a Peter F Rambau _922887
245			_aScrotal swelling and testicular atrophy due to schistosomiasis in a 9-year-old boy _b a case report
260			_aMwanza, Tanzania: _bHindawi & _b Catholic University of Health and Allied Sciences [CUHAS – Bugando] _c2011/10
490			_vCase reports in infectious diseases Volume 2011
520			_aAbstract Schistosomiasis is a communicable disease which commonly involves urinary bladder causing hematuria, or large bowel causing bloody stool. The common species encountered in this lake region surrounding Lake Victoria in Tanzania are Schistosoma haematobium and Schistosoma mansoni. Complications can lead to portal hypertension due portal fibrosis in liver, and fibrosis in lung can lead to pulmonary hypertension; this commonly seen with S. mansoni. Major complications of S. maeametobium are chronic cystitis with squamous metaplasia with subsequent development of squamous cell carcinoma. Involvement of spinal cord causing paraplegia has been observed in S. haematobium. Other unusual pathology of schistosomiasis has been described, such as involvement of the appendix, ovary, prostate, and cervix. Here, we present a case of schistosomiasis in a 9-year-old boy who presented with left scrotal pain for one year which was accompanied by scrotal swelling; surgical exploration was done, and the finding was hydrocele and atrophic testes with nodules on the surface. Histological examination reveals atrophic testis and heavy active granulomatous inflammation with schistosoma eggs consistent with Schistosoma haematobium in the tunica vaginalis.
700			_a Alphonce Chandika _944779
700			_a Philipo L Chalya _944521
700			_a Kahima Jackson _921541
856			_y https://doi.org/10.1155/2011/787961
942			_2ddc _cVM
999			_c19156 _d19156