Schistosomiasis--a rare cause of iron deficiency anemia

Laudage, G.; Schirp, J.

Leber Magen Darm 26(4): 216-218

1996


ISSN/ISBN: 0300-8622
PMID: 8965604
Document Number: 456685
We report on a young african women, who had a severe anemia due to iron deficiency. By colonoscopy we found as cause a late stage of intestinal schistosomiasis. On this occasion we agree to the pathophysiology, the epidemiology, the symptomatology, the diagnosis and the therapy of this disease.

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