It is not always Crohn's disease: Amebiasis as a differential diagnosis of inflammatory bowel disease

Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2019 Nov;42(9):548-549. doi: 10.1016/j.gastrohep.2019.03.006. Epub 2019 May 20.
[Article in English, Spanish]
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Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Letter

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Antiprotozoal Agents / therapeutic use
  • Colonoscopy
  • Crohn Disease / diagnosis*
  • Crohn Disease / drug therapy
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Diagnostic Errors
  • Drainage / methods
  • Entamoeba / isolation & purification
  • Humans
  • Inflammatory Bowel Diseases / diagnosis
  • Intestinal Diseases, Parasitic / diagnosis*
  • Intestinal Diseases, Parasitic / therapy
  • Liver Abscess, Amebic / diagnosis*
  • Liver Abscess, Amebic / therapy
  • Male
  • Metronidazole / therapeutic use
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed
  • Ultrasonography, Interventional

Substances

  • Antiprotozoal Agents
  • Metronidazole