Abstract:Human schistosomiasis or bilharzia is a parasitic disease that highly impacts a country’s health and economic systems specifically when it affects individuals residing in underdeveloped countries. Daughter eggs produced by colonized Schistosoma can lead to multisystem immune-mediated response, one of them is an intravesicular granulomatous reaction leading to intramural lesions. Such outcome is directly related to the incubation of adult worms within the perivesical urogenital venous plexus. We hereby report a… Show more
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