Amoeboma

Amoeboma

This is a chronic granuloma arising in the large bowel, most commonly seen in the caecum. It is prone to occur in long standing amoebic infection that has been treated intermittently with drugs without completion of a full course, a situation that arises from indiscriminate self-medication, particularly in resource-poor countries. Hence this is more often seen in such countries. should be suspected when a patient from an endemic area with generalised ill health and pyrexia has a mass in the right iliac fossa with a history of blood-stained mucoid diarrhoea. Such a patient is highly unlikely to hav e a carcinoma because altered bowel habit is not a feature of right-sided colonic carcinoma. While iron deficiency anaemia is a classical elective presenta - - tion of a caecal carcinoma, the same is present in an amoe - boma because of chronic malnutrition. Amoeboma

This is a chronic granuloma arising in the large bowel, most commonly seen in the caecum. It is prone to occur in long standing amoebic infection that has been treated intermittently with drugs without completion of a full course, a situation that arises from indiscriminate self-medication, particularly in resource-poor countries. Hence this is more often seen in such countries. should be suspected when a patient from an endemic area with generalised ill health and pyrexia has a mass in the right iliac fossa with a history of blood-stained mucoid diarrhoea. Such a patient is highly unlikely to hav e a carcinoma because altered bowel habit is not a feature of right-sided colonic carcinoma. While iron deficiency anaemia is a classical elective presenta - - tion of a caecal carcinoma, the same is present in an amoe - boma because of chronic malnutrition. Amoeboma

This is a chronic granuloma arising in the large bowel, most commonly seen in the caecum. It is prone to occur in long standing amoebic infection that has been treated intermittently with drugs without completion of a full course, a situation that arises from indiscriminate self-medication, particularly in resource-poor countries. Hence this is more often seen in such countries. should be suspected when a patient from an endemic area with generalised ill health and pyrexia has a mass in the right iliac fossa with a history of blood-stained mucoid diarrhoea. Such a patient is highly unlikely to hav e a carcinoma because altered bowel habit is not a feature of right-sided colonic carcinoma. While iron deficiency anaemia is a classical elective presenta - - tion of a caecal carcinoma, the same is present in an amoe - boma because of chronic malnutrition.