Gamuts

Amebiasis

Amoebiasis, also known amoebic dysentery, is an infection caused by any of the amoebae of the Entamoeba group. Symptoms are most common during infection by Entamoeba histolytica. [Source: Wikipedia ]

May Cause
Abdominal abscess
Anterior indentation on rectosigmoid junction
Aphthoid ulcer of bowel
Appendiceal mass
Bronchopleural fistula
Cecal lesion
Colitis of ascending colon
Colon wall thickening
Conical cecum
Enlarged ileocecal valve
Enlarged iliopsoas muscle
Gastrointestinal tract fistula
Increased presacral space
Infectious enterocolitis
Inflammatory bowel disease with wall thickening
Innumerable tiny nodules in small bowel or colon
Intestinal obstruction in an adult
Localized chronic pulmonary opacity
Lung abscess
Marked bowel wall thickening
Massive pleural effusion
Mucosal destruction of small bowel
Multiple pleural masses
Pericolic abscess
Peritoneal disease
Peritonitis
Pleural effusion containing eosinophiles
Pleural effusion with disease in thorax
Pleural effusion with normal lungs
Pleural thickening
Pneumothorax
Presacral sinus tract
Pulmonary lobar consolidation
Pulmonary segmental consolidation
Rectal disease
Segmental bowel wall thickening
Segmental narrowing of colon
Small bowel wall thickening
Small pleural effusion with subsegmental atelectasis
Symmetric bowel wall thickening
Ulcerating bowel disease
Ureteral stricture
Vaginal fistula

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