Rare Gallbladder Parasitosis Mimicking Cholelithiasis: Dicrocoelium Dendriticum

Abstract

Cholelithiasis is increasingly diagnosed in childhood and infancy. Biliary parasites are the rarest cause of cholelithiasis in all age groups. We present a twelve-year-old girl with non-hemolytic gallbladder stone and discuss the clinical features and differential diagnosis of Dicrocoelium dendriticum (DD) invasion that causes and/or mimics cholelithiasis in children.

Key words

Dicrocoelium dendriticum - cholelithiasis - children

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