A Case of Pharyngitis Caused by Clinostomum complanatum.
10.3342/kjorl-hns.2015.58.1.61
- Author:
Shin Chul JUNG
1
;
Hun Jae OH
;
Dong Min KIM
;
Jun Hee PARK
Author Information
1. Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Chosun University School of Medicine, Gwangju, Korea. entjh28@chosun.ac.kr
- Publication Type:Case Report
- Keywords:
Clinostomum complanatum;
Digenetic trematode;
Pharyngitis
- MeSH:
Adolescent;
Birds;
Female;
Foreign Bodies;
Humans;
Korea;
Laryngeal Mucosa;
Laryngoscopy;
Larynx;
Otolaryngology;
Pharyngitis*;
Pharynx;
Sensation;
Smegmamorpha;
Trematoda
- From:Korean Journal of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery
2015;58(1):61-63
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
A 13-year-old female patient visited the otolaryngology clinic with complaints of a moving foreign body sensation in her throat. The patient used to eat raw fish and she had eaten mullet sashimi a week before. During laryngoscopy for the pharynx and larynx, a motile fluke was found attached to the posterolateral nasopharyngeal wall. The worm was easily removed and identified as Clinostomum complanatum (C. complanatum) after morphological observation. C. complanatum is a digenetic trematode which usually infects fish-eating birds. Human infection by C. complanatum is very rare, and if a human eats infected raw fish, the worm can be on the pharyngeal or laryngeal mucosa. Human cases of parasitic C. complanatum infection have been reported twice in Korea, with the present report being the first case in the otolaryngology field.
