title: Amoeboma- An Interesting Case Report With an Unusual Presentation creator: S, Vijayshankar creator: Ramachandra, Usha creator: Rao, Vastala creator: Siddappa, Sujatha subject: Online Journal of Health and Allied Sciences description: Amebiasis is an infectious disease caused by Entamoeba Histolytica is more common in devolping countries, with various clinical manifestations and sequalae. Amoeboma , is an unusual sequelae which manifests as a tumor like mass within the colon. We present an unusual case of 5 year old child with signs of acute abdomen. A mass was found on expoloratory laparotomy attached to the small intestine. Histopathological examination of the mass revealed numerous amoebic trophozoites and the diagnosis of amoeboma was made. Our case is unusual because amoebomas presenting as an extraluminal mass attached to small intestine is extremely uncommon. publisher: Dr. B.S. Kakkilaya contributor: Kakkilaya, Dr. Srinivas date: 2010-10-15 type: Journal (On-line/Unpaginated) type: PeerReviewed format: application/pdf identifier: http://cogprints.org/7125/1/2010-3-22.pdf identifier: S, Vijayshankar and Ramachandra, Usha and Rao, Vastala and Siddappa, Sujatha (2010) Amoeboma- An Interesting Case Report With an Unusual Presentation. [Journal (On-line/Unpaginated)] relation: http://cogprints.org/7125/