Iranian Journal of Pathology

Primary Gastrointestinal Aspergillosis Presenting As Multiple Ulcerated Colonic Masses: A Case Report

Document Type : Case Reports

Authors

Atoosa Gharib
Azadeh Rakhshan
Farzaneh Jadali

Dept. of Pathology, Mofid Children Hospital, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.

Abstract
  Gastrointestinal aspergillosis most often occurs in the setting of disseminated infection from a primary pulmonary site and primary gastrointestinal aspergillosis is an unusual presentation. We report a 7 year old female child with aplastic anemia, who was under treatment but experienced periods of neutropenia. She had no evidence of respiratory aspergillosis before the onset of abdominal symptoms including severe abdominal pain and rectorrhagia.The patient died of septic shock two weeks after emergency surgery for rectal bleeding. Although a rare condition, primary gastrointestinal aspergillosis should be considered in differential diagnosis of gastrointestinal symptoms in neutropenic patients.  

Keywords

Aspergillosis
Gastrointestinal tract
Iranian Journal of Pathology
Volume 3, Issue 3 - Serial Number 3
Summer 2008
Pages 168-169

  • Receive Date 29 September 2014

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