ACASE OF MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM INTRACELLULARE ASSOCIATEDWITH AIDS DIAGNOSED BY ENDOSCOPIC BIOPSY

Tatsumi SONE; Toru ENDO; Teturo ARAI; Jun SAITO; Kyoko NAKAZAWA; Kaori SHIMIZU; Fumiaki SANO; Koji KUSAKARI; Masashi ISHIDA; Mikita MORITA; Hirotaka Koizumi; Mamoru TADOKORO

doi:10.11280/gee1973b.38.331

Tatsumi SONE, Toru ENDO, Teturo ARAI, Jun SAITO, Kyoko NAKAZAWA, Kaori SHIMIZU, Fumiaki SANO, Koji KUSAKARI, Masashi ISHIDA, Mikita MORITA, Hirotaka Koizumi, Mamoru TADOKORO

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1996 Volume 38 Issue 2 Pages 331-334_1

DOI https://doi.org/10.11280/gee1973b.38.331

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Abstract

A25-year-old man with advanced HIV disease was admitted to our hospital withabdominal pain and watery diarrhea for three months. Gastroendoscopy found multiplewhite nodules in the second portion of the duodenumL. Histological study revealed extensive nlucosal infiltration of histiocytic infiltrates in the lesions. These histiocytes werefilled with Acid-fast bacilli and PCR analysis with M. avium-intracellulare. This paper reports the first case of duodenal MAI associated with AIDS in Japan.

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