Enterobiasis: a histopathological study of 259 patients
| Autor: | B Sinniah, R C Neafie, D H Connor, J Leopairut, M Voge |
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| Rok vydání: | 1991 |
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Male Pathology medicine.medical_specialty Adolescent Lung Diseases Parasitic 030231 tropical medicine Helminthiasis Lumen (anatomy) Biology 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Peritoneum 030225 pediatrics parasitic diseases medicine Animals Humans Enterobius Intestinal Diseases Parasitic Child Lung Oxyuriasis Genitalia Female Anatomy Middle Aged medicine.disease Appendix Intestines Infectious Diseases medicine.anatomical_structure Child Preschool Granuloma Female Parasitology Histopathology Genital Diseases Female |
| Zdroj: | Annals of Tropical Medicine & Parasitology. 85:625-635 |
| ISSN: | 1364-8594 0003-4983 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/00034983.1991.11812618 |
| Popis: | Enterobius worms or their eggs, or both, are present in preserved tissue sections or tissue specimens of 259 patients whose medical records are on file at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Washington D.C., U.S.A. The most common site of infection (86.5%) was found to be the lumen of the appendix, where the worms provoke no reaction. Of the 259 patients 11 (4.2%) had worms and/or eggs in granulomas of the abdominal and pelvic peritoneum, and an equal number had granulomas on the peritoneum of the salphinx or on the surface of the ovary. There were also ectopic worms and/or eggs in granulomas on the peritoneum of the small and large intestines (2.7%). These Enterobius granulomas form around degenerating adult worms, around discrete eggs, around clusters of eggs, and, we believe, also around the tracks of migrating worms. Three patients (1.2%) had worms in perianal abscesses. A necrotic granuloma, removed from the lung of one patient, surrounded a degenerating adult worm. This suggests that the worm, carried to the lung as an embolus, impacted in a pulmonary arteriole. A stool specimen of one patient contains eggs of Enterobius, and that of another patient contains an adult Enterobius. This is the largest recorded histopathological study of enterobiasis in man. |
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