[Incidence and significance of bilharziasis in the Republic of Mozambique].

The bilharziosis, primarily a parasitosis of tropical countries sometimes plays a role also in the consulting hour of the physician in the GDR, especially of the urologist, therefore, it should be differential-diagnostically known to the physicians. The author reports on his activity at the Institute of Pathology of Maputo University, People's Republic Moçambique, and informs about bilharziosis on the basis of bioptic investigations especially of the urogenital tract. The high coincidence of the bilharziosis infection of the urinary bladder with the development of a in most cases planely growing squamous cell carcinoma. The frequency of the carcinoma of the urinary bladder in the People's Republic Moçambique is the greatest of the world. Pro year for 100,000 Africans in men there are 24 carcinomas, in women 19 ones. It is the second in frequency malignant tumour in the male following the primary liver carcinoma and the third in frequency of the female after the liver carcinoma and the uterine cervix carcinoma. The bilharziosis infection is also responsible for the great number of cervix carcinomas and tubal pregnancies.