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Case Reports
. 2005 Nov;87(6):481.
doi: 10.1308/147870805x60789.

An unusual presentation of genitourinary schistosomiasis in a Caucasian woman in the UK

M K Ajit  1 , E A Groenewald, M Speakman
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Case Reports

An unusual presentation of genitourinary schistosomiasis in a Caucasian woman in the UK

M K Ajit et al. Ann R Coll Surg Engl. 2005 Nov.

Abstract

A young woman who presented with loin pain and pyuria after a prolonged period of investigations and treatment, finally having a nephrectomy for non-functioning kidney, was revealed to have schistosomial infestation with an adult worm in the ureter. Unusually, she only developed bladder manifestations later.

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