Testicular sparganosis in a child from Uruguay

Acta Tropica

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 83-86

  Sakamoto, Tsukasa ^a,d   Gutierrez, Carmen ^b   Rodriguez, Angeles ^c   Sauto, Sergio ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LA REPÚBLICA   (Uruguay)

^b Centro Hospitalario Pereira Rossell   (Uruguay)

^c Pereira Rossell Hospital   (Uruguay)

^d NONE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Child; Plerocercoid; Sparganosis; Sparganum; Spirometra; Uruguay

Indexed keywords

CHILD HEALTH; HEALTH MONITORING;

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIPHYLLOBOTHRIASIS; ECHOGRAPHY; EOSINOPHIL; EPIDIDYMIS; EPIDIDYMITIS; GRANULOMATOUS INFLAMMATION; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM SURGERY; ORCHITIS; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; SPARGANUM; TESTIS BIOPSY; TESTIS TUMOR; TUNICA VAGINALIS; URUGUAY;

URUGUAY;

SPARGANUM; SPIROMETRA;

EID: 0042967600     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0001-706X(03)00171-2     Document Type: Article

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