The value of repeated follow-up, intravenous and intracavitary contrast-enhanced ultrasonography (CEUS) in an adolescent with chronic granulomatous disease and multiple organ absc…
D Franke, K Chobanyan-Jürgens, U Baumann · Ultraschall in der Medizin - European Journal of Ultrasound · 2013 · Heft 10
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Purpose: This case report focuses on the diagnosis and management of multiple abdominal abscesses in the liver, spleen, both kidneys, both psoas muscles and the spine in a 17 year old female with the late initial diagnosis of chronic granulomatous disease (CGD). Patient: Patient's history: multiple granulomatous inflammatory lesions with necessity of repeated surgical interventions, salmonella meningitis with parainfectious cerebral infarction at the age of 3 years, repeated urinary and respiratory tract infections, chronic inflammatory bowel disease, consanguine parents. An immune defect was suspected, but not…