Cecal Sparganosis Manifested as Chronic Intestinal Obstruction: Case report.
- Author:
Ji Kon RYU
;
Kwang Cheol KOH
;
Jung Won PARK
;
Yong Tae KIM
;
Yong Bum YUN
;
In Sung SONG
;
Kyu Wan CHOI
;
Chung Yong KIM
- Publication Type:Original Article
- Keywords:
Sparganosis;
Intestine
- MeSH:
Abdominal Pain;
Adult;
Cecum;
Cestoda;
Communicable Diseases;
Humans;
Inflammation;
Intestinal Obstruction*;
Intestines;
Larva;
Phenobarbital;
Sparganosis*;
Sparganum;
Spirometra;
Tuberculosis
- From:Korean Journal of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy
1992;12(2):307-310
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
Sparganosis is a parasitic infectious disease by sparganum which is a plerocercoid larva of spirometra, a kind of cestode. We experienced a case of intramural sparganosis of cecum presenting as chronic intermittent abdominal pain. A 39 year old man was hospitalized due to intermittent abdominal pain for 6 months and the operation was done under the impreesion of the intestinal tuberculosis or submucosal tumor of cecum after diagnostic work-up. Resected cecum revealed diffuse wall thickening and luminal narrowing. The microscopic findings showed a degenerated larva in the muscle layer with typical tissue reaction which was basically noncaseating cavitary granulomatous inflammation and many calcareous corpuscles which were pathognomonic features of cestode were prominent within the degenerated worm.
