Bowel X-ray alterations in acute human schistosomiasis

• Main Authors: Enio Roberto Pietra Pedroso, José Roberto Lambertucci, Manoel Otávio da Costa Rocha, Dirceu Bartolomeu Greco, Cid Sérgio Ferreira, Roberto Sena Rocha, Naftale Katz
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical (SBMT) 1987
• Subjects: Schistosoma mansoni; Esquistossomose toxêmica aguda; Alterações radiológicas intestinais; Acute toxemic schistosomiasis; Bowel x-ray alterations; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Aguda; Arctic
• Online Access: https://doaj.org/article/e8e9f969f1d94c3ebfee60172fdac160

A radiological study of the small intestine of 17 untreated patients in the acute phase ofschistosomiasis was performed. Twelve patients (70% of total) had alterations: nine had clear-cut thickening of the duodenal and jejunal folds, one flocculation, one fragmentation and one thickening of mucosae,...