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Encased by Infection: A Rare Case of Retroperitoneal Fibrosis Induced by Disseminated Cysticercosis
Case Reports in Infectious DiseasesCysticercosis refers to a disease caused by the larvae of Taenia solium parasitizing various tissues and organs of the human body. It is reported that cysticercosis is most commonly caused by the central nervous system, and retroperitoneal fibrosis is ...
Lufeng Zhang, Shaoyang Zhan
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A Fibromatosis Case Mimicking Abdominal Aorta Aneurysm
Case Reports in Cardiology, 2013 Retroperitoneal fibrosis is a rare fibrosing reactive process that may be confused with mesenteric fibromatosis. Abdominal aorta aneurysm is rare too and mostly develops secondary to Behcet’s disease, trauma, and infection or connective tissue diseases ...
Arzu Tasdemir +3 more
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Idiopathic Retroperitoneal Fibrosis.
Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, 2016 Idiopathic retroperitoneal fibrosis (RPF), reviewed herein, is a rare fibro-inflammatory disease that develops around the abdominal aorta and the iliac arteries, and spreads into the adjacent retroperitoneum, where it frequently causes ureteral ...
Augusto Vaglio, Federica Maritati
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Mediastinal and retroperitoneal fibrosis as a manifestation of breast cancer metastasis
Medicine, 2018 Rationale: Mediastinal and retroperitoneal fibrosis as a manifestation of metastasis from malignancies is rare disease and particularly, cases of mediastinal fibrosis have been rarely reported. Patient concerns: A 60-year-old woman presented with dyspnea
Jinah Kim +4 more
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Acta Médica Costarricense, 2005 Se reporta el caso de una mujer de 61 años de edad, con antecedente de tuberculosis pélvica en la adolescencia, que se presentó con insuficiencia renal aguda y dolor lumbar y a quien se le diagnosticó fibrosis retroperitoneal.
Claudio Orlich-Castelán +1 more
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A case of giant retroperitoneal lymphangioma and IgG4-positive fibrosis: Causality or coincidence?
SAGE Open Medical Case Reports, 2021 Several chronic inflammatory diseases have been found to be a subtype of IgG4-related disease, all of which have a typical clinical and histological change, which is based in particular on an overexpression of IgG4 and subsequent fibrosis.
Kim Rouven Liedtke +4 more
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Retroperitoneal fibrosis; a single-centre case experience with literature review
Rheumatology Advances in Practice, 2018 Objective We present 13 patients with retroperitoneal fibrosis, focusing on clinical features, radiological characteristics, treatments and their outcomes.
Saqib Adnan +5 more
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HLA-B27 (antigen) in retroperitoneal fibrosis in a family
Archives of Medical Science, 2007 Idiopathic retroperitoneal fibrosis is a rare disease of undetermined aetiology. It is important to distinguish this entity from retroperitoneal fibrosis secondary to malignancy or specific inflammatory disease.
Mohammad Yazdani, Afshin Shadmehr
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World Journal of Nuclear Medicine, 2011 We present a case of carcinoma cervix found to have a soft tissue lesion in retroperitoneal region with intense FDG uptake. However, this FDG uptake was false positive as the final diagnosis was retroperitoneal fibrosis.
R. Kashyap +4 more
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Ureteroscopy-Assisted Biopsy for a Retroperitoneal Tumor: A Case Report
Case Reports in Oncology, 2015 Introduction: Retroperitoneal tumor is often seen in urology clinical practice. To diagnose the tumor, tumor specimens must be obtained. However, in some cases, the tumor is penetrated by vessels around the ureter, and it may be difficult to detect the ...
Yoko Maeda +13 more
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