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Enterobius Vermicularis infection of the appendix as a cause of acute appendicitis in a Greek adolescent: a case report

Gastrointestinal infection due to Enterobius vermicularis occurs worldwide and is considered to be the most common helminth infection. The simple presence of E. vermicularis in the appendix usually produces symptoms of acute appendicitis. The association of this parasitic infestation with acute appe...

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Autores principales: Efraimidou, Eleni, Gatopoulou, Anthia, Stamos, Charilaos, Lirantzopoulos, Nikolaos, Kouklakis, George
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2614947/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19061517
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-1-376
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author Efraimidou, Eleni
Gatopoulou, Anthia
Stamos, Charilaos
Lirantzopoulos, Nikolaos
Kouklakis, George
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Gatopoulou, Anthia
Stamos, Charilaos
Lirantzopoulos, Nikolaos
Kouklakis, George
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description Gastrointestinal infection due to Enterobius vermicularis occurs worldwide and is considered to be the most common helminth infection. The simple presence of E. vermicularis in the appendix usually produces symptoms of acute appendicitis. The association of this parasitic infestation with acute appendicitis varies from 0.2%–41.8% worldwide. We present a case of a 15 year old female with enterobiasis of appendix presented with clinical features of acute appendicitis. The appendix was surgically removed and the specimen was pathologically diagnosed to contain of E. vermicularis in non-inflamed and histologically normal appendix. Even if this condition is not uncommon in the Greek population, to the best of our knowledge this is the first report presented in the English literature.
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spelling pubmed-26149472009-01-08 Enterobius Vermicularis infection of the appendix as a cause of acute appendicitis in a Greek adolescent: a case report Efraimidou, Eleni Gatopoulou, Anthia Stamos, Charilaos Lirantzopoulos, Nikolaos Kouklakis, George Cases J Case Report Gastrointestinal infection due to Enterobius vermicularis occurs worldwide and is considered to be the most common helminth infection. The simple presence of E. vermicularis in the appendix usually produces symptoms of acute appendicitis. The association of this parasitic infestation with acute appendicitis varies from 0.2%–41.8% worldwide. We present a case of a 15 year old female with enterobiasis of appendix presented with clinical features of acute appendicitis. The appendix was surgically removed and the specimen was pathologically diagnosed to contain of E. vermicularis in non-inflamed and histologically normal appendix. Even if this condition is not uncommon in the Greek population, to the best of our knowledge this is the first report presented in the English literature. BioMed Central 2008-12-06 /pmc/articles/PMC2614947/ /pubmed/19061517 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-1-376 Text en Copyright © 2008 Efraimidou et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Case Report
Efraimidou, Eleni
Gatopoulou, Anthia
Stamos, Charilaos
Lirantzopoulos, Nikolaos
Kouklakis, George
Enterobius Vermicularis infection of the appendix as a cause of acute appendicitis in a Greek adolescent: a case report
title Enterobius Vermicularis infection of the appendix as a cause of acute appendicitis in a Greek adolescent: a case report
title_full Enterobius Vermicularis infection of the appendix as a cause of acute appendicitis in a Greek adolescent: a case report
title_fullStr Enterobius Vermicularis infection of the appendix as a cause of acute appendicitis in a Greek adolescent: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Enterobius Vermicularis infection of the appendix as a cause of acute appendicitis in a Greek adolescent: a case report
title_short Enterobius Vermicularis infection of the appendix as a cause of acute appendicitis in a Greek adolescent: a case report
title_sort enterobius vermicularis infection of the appendix as a cause of acute appendicitis in a greek adolescent: a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2614947/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19061517
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-1-376
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