Cryptosporidiosis of the biliary tract mimicking pancreatic cancer in an AIDS patient

Do Rosário de Souza, Lenice; Rodrigues, Maria Aparecida Marchesan; Morceli, José; Kemp, Raphael; Mendes, Rinaldo Poncio

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Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, v. 37, n. 2, p. 182-185, 2004.

0037-8682

http://hdl.handle.net/11449/67671

http://acervodigital.unesp.br/handle/11449/67671

10.1590/S0037-86822004000200015

S0037-86822004000200015

2-s2.0-2442434619.pdf

2-s2.0-2442434619

http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S0037-86822004000200015

http://repositorioslatinoamericanos.uchile.cl/handle/2250/889095

Autor

Do Rosário de Souza, Lenice

Rodrigues, Maria Aparecida Marchesan

Morceli, José

Kemp, Raphael

Mendes, Rinaldo Poncio

Institución

Universidade Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho (Brasil)

Resumen

Diarrhea caused by Cryptosporidium sp is frequent in patients with AIDS, but involvement of other organs of the digestive tract is uncommon. We report a case of Cryptosporidium-associated obstruction of the biliary tract mimicking cancer of the head of the pancreas in a 43-year-old woman with AIDS.

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