An unusual presentation of genitourinary schistosomiasis in a Caucasian woman in the UK.

Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England
M K AjitM Speakman

Abstract

A young woman who presented with loin pain and pyuria after a prolonged period of investigations and treatment, finally having a nephrectomy for non-functioning kidney, was revealed to have schistosomial infestation with an adult worm in the ureter. Unusually, she only developed bladder manifestations later.

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