SYSTEMIC CAT-SCRATCH DISEASE - HEPATIC AND SPLENIC INVOLVEMENT ABOUT 3 PEDIATRIC CASES

Authors
DESTUYNDER O VANLEMMANS P MBOYO A DESTUYNDER R AUBERT D DEBILLY B COLIN P LEROY J ESTAVOYER JM VIENNET G
Citation
O. Destuynder et al., SYSTEMIC CAT-SCRATCH DISEASE - HEPATIC AND SPLENIC INVOLVEMENT ABOUT 3 PEDIATRIC CASES, European journal of pediatric surgery, 5(6), 1995, pp. 365-368
Citations number
43
Categorie Soggetti
Surgery,Pediatrics
Journal title
European journal of pediatric surgery → ACNP
ISSN journal
09397248
Volume
5
Issue
6
Year of publication
1995
Pages
365 - 368
Database
ISI
SICI code
0939-7248(1995)5:6<365:SCD-HA>2.0.ZU;2-J
Abstract
Numerous diseases can lead to multinodular lesions of Liver and spleen ; surgical biopsy can be required for the etiologic diagnosis;Among th ese diseases, systemic cat scratch disease has been recently described . Macroscopical appearance of the lesions is evocative and must be kno wn by surgeons. Three children with systemic cat scratch disease invol ving liver and spleen are reported.