Tubal ectopic gestation associated with genital schistosomiasis: a case report
Aminu, M.B.; Abdullahi, K.; Dattijo, L.M.
African Journal of Reproductive Health 18(2): 144-146
2014
ISSN/ISBN: 1118-4841 PMID: 25022151 Document Number: 641451
Schistosoma are trematode blood flukes of the family Schistosomidae affecting the urinary and gastro-intestinal tracts. Riverine areas of the world such as in Africa, Eastern Mediterranean, Central American and East Asia are endemic for the disease, with S. haematobium accounting for most of the symptomatic genital infection. A case of a 25-year-old woman with 8 weeks amenorrhoea, lower abdominal pain and per vaginal bleeding was managed for ruptured ectopic pregnancy and discovered to have tubal infection by Schistosoma on histological examination is presented.