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Vaginal Amebiasis Mimicking Cervical Cancer

Content Provider	Semantic Scholar
Author	Ota, Masayuki Yanagisawa, Naoki
Copyright Year	2016
Abstract	A 46-year-old woman presented with lower abdominal pain, diarrhea and irregular vaginal bleeding persisting for the past 2 months. She had a history of cervical cancer treated with concurrent chemoradiotherapy 6 years previously, which was successful. Magnetic resonance imaging with T2-weighted and diffusion images showed a high intensity area in the cervix, suggestive of recurrent cervical cancer (Picture 1). However, a biopsy specimen of the cervix was compatible for amebiasis on hematoxylin/eosin and periodic acid-Schiff staining (Picture 2). A stool specimen demonstrated an ameba trophozoite, which was later confirmed to be Entamoeba histolytica. Blood tests were nega-
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Ending Page	3072
Page Count	2
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Alternate Webpage(s)	https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/oa_pdf/77/94/1349-7235-55-3071.PMC5109583.pdf
PubMed reference number	27746453v1
Volume Number	55
Journal	Internal medicine
Language	English
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Amebic colitis Amoeba genus Amoeba identified:Prid:Pt:Asp:Nom:Iron hematoxylin stain Biopsy Specimen CDISC SEND Biospecimens Terminology Cervix carcinoma Chemoradiotherapy Diarrhea Eosine Yellowish Feces Neck Periodic Acid Staining method Vagina Vaginal Hemorrhage lower abdominal pain recurrent cervical cancer
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