A 6-year-old girl with abdominal pain and hepatomegaly; Fasciloa hepatica with an unusual presentation
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Fatemeh Farahmand
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Ruhollah Edalatkhah
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Sara Memairan
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Hojjatollah Jafari-Fesharaki
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Behdad Gharib
Abstract
We present a girl afflicted by Fasciola hepatica who was firstly considered to have other causes of jaundice and abdominal pain;however, she had eosinophilia. The clinicians initially ruled out the possibility parasitic infection via having one negative stool examination. According to the epidemiologic characteristics of the region, the patient belonged to hypereosinophilia and hyper IgE; we repeated the stool exam 3 times and the experienced parasitologist confirmed the diagnosis.
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