A case report of colonic Ameboma mimicking colon cancer in an immunocompromised patient.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction and importance

Entamoeba histolytica is an anaerobic protozoan. It infects humans causing Amoebiasis. Most infections are asymptomatic; however, clinical manifestations include intestinal or extraintestinal. In rare instances, patients can present with Ameboma: a mass of granulation tissue consisting of a core of inflammation with peripheral fibrosis related to chronic amoebic infection usually found in the cecum/ascending colon.

Presentation of case

A 50-year-old patient presented with signs and symptoms of bowel obstruction. He had raised inflammatory markers and was HIV positive on treatment and virally suppressed. At laparotomy a hepatic flexure stricture with desmoid reaction, and wall thickening with induration at the mesenteric border of mid-transverse co

SUBMITTER: Omwansa P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10510079 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature