Fig. 12
Genitourinary schitosomiasis. a. Pelvis radiograph of a patient born in Ivory Coast, showing a complete calcification of the urinary bladder walls (arrows), pathognomonic of chronic urinary schistosomiasis. b. Pelvis radiograph from an iv urography in a patient born in Mali; there is wall calcification of both distal ureters (white arrows) and anterior urinary bladder wall (black arrow), and also calcification of the seminal vesicles (arrowheads), consistent with chronic schistosomiasis. Cystoscopy was performed in both patients revealing characteristic urothelial lesions. Biopsies showed schistosoma eggs