The role of ultrasonography in the differentiation of the various types of filaricele due to bancroftian filariasis

Acta Tropica

Volumn 120, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2011, Pages

  Mand, Sabine ^a   Debrah, Alexander Y ^b   Klarmann, Ute ^a   Mante, Sunny ^c   Kwarteng, Alexander ^d   Batsa, Linda ^d   Marfo Debrekyei, Yeboah ^d   Adjei, Ohene ^d   Hoerauf, Achim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BONN   (Germany)

^b KWAME NKRUMAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Ghana)

^c 37 Military Hospital ^*  (Ghana)

^d KUMASI CENTRE FOR COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH IN TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Ghana)

Author keywords

Chylocele; Filaricele; Hydrocele; Hydrocele staging; Lymphatic filariasis; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

PARASITE ANTIGEN;

BIOACCUMULATION; ENDEMISM; FILARIASIS; MEDICINE; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; SKIN DISORDER; ULTRASONICS;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BANCROFTIAN FILARIASIS; BLOOD SAMPLING; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE COURSE; ECHOGRAPHY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPIDIDYMAL CYST; EPIDIDYMIS; FILARICELE; GHANA; HERNIA; HUMAN; HYDROCELE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LYMPH VESSEL; LYMPHOCELE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITE LOAD; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCROTAL SWELLING; SCROTUM DISORDER; SPERMATIC CORD; SPERMATOCELE; TESTIS; TESTIS APPENDIX; TESTIS DISEASE; TESTIS MICROLITHIASIS; TESTIS NECROSIS; TUNICA VAGINALIS; UROGENITAL TRACT INFECTION; WUCHERERIA BANCROFTI;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ELEPHANTIASIS, FILARIAL; GENITAL DISEASES, MALE; GHANA; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SCROTUM; TESTICULAR HYDROCELE; WUCHERERIA BANCROFTI; YOUNG ADULT;

FILARIA;

EID: 80054034073     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: 18736254     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2010.07.002     Document Type: Article

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