Rare gallbladder parasitosis mimicking cholelithiasis: Dicrocoelium dendriticum

Eur J Pediatr Surg. 2008 Aug;18(4):280-1. doi: 10.1055/s-2007-989378. Epub 2008 Jul 15.

Abstract

Cholelithiasis is increasingly diagnosed in childhood and infancy. Biliary parasites are the rarest cause of cholelithiasis in all age groups. We present a twelve-year-old girl with non-hemolytic gallbladder stone and discuss the clinical features and differential diagnosis of Dicrocoelium dendriticum (DD) invasion that causes and/or mimics cholelithiasis in children.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Child
  • Cholelithiasis / diagnosis*
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Dicrocoeliasis / diagnosis*
  • Dicrocoeliasis / diagnostic imaging
  • Dicrocoeliasis / pathology
  • Female
  • Gallbladder Diseases / parasitology*
  • Gallbladder Diseases / pathology
  • Humans
  • Ultrasonography