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A Case of Sparganosis in the Leg
The life-span of the sparganum in humans is not exactly known, but it may survive longer than 5 years in some patients. We experienced a case infected with a sparganum that is presumed to have lived for 20 years in a patient's leg. The patient was a 60-year-old woman, and she was admitted to a...
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2010
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3018580/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21234233 http://dx.doi.org/10.3347/kjp.2010.48.4.309 |
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author | Lee, Kyung-Joon Myung, Na-Hye Park, Hyun-Woo |
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description | The life-span of the sparganum in humans is not exactly known, but it may survive longer than 5 years in some patients. We experienced a case infected with a sparganum that is presumed to have lived for 20 years in a patient's leg. The patient was a 60-year-old woman, and she was admitted to a hospital due to ankle pain that was aggravated on dorsiflexion. She had noticed a mass on her knee some 20 years ago, but she received no medical management for it. The mass moved into the ankle joint 3 months before the current admission, and then the aforementioned symptoms appeared. A living sparganum was recovered by surgery, and the calcified tract near the knee was proved to be the pathway along which the larva had passed. |
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spelling | pubmed-30185802011-01-13 A Case of Sparganosis in the Leg Lee, Kyung-Joon Myung, Na-Hye Park, Hyun-Woo Korean J Parasitol Case Report The life-span of the sparganum in humans is not exactly known, but it may survive longer than 5 years in some patients. We experienced a case infected with a sparganum that is presumed to have lived for 20 years in a patient's leg. The patient was a 60-year-old woman, and she was admitted to a hospital due to ankle pain that was aggravated on dorsiflexion. She had noticed a mass on her knee some 20 years ago, but she received no medical management for it. The mass moved into the ankle joint 3 months before the current admission, and then the aforementioned symptoms appeared. A living sparganum was recovered by surgery, and the calcified tract near the knee was proved to be the pathway along which the larva had passed. The Korean Society for Parasitology 2010-12 2010-12-16 /pmc/articles/PMC3018580/ /pubmed/21234233 http://dx.doi.org/10.3347/kjp.2010.48.4.309 Text en © 2010, Korean Society for Parasitology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Case Report Lee, Kyung-Joon Myung, Na-Hye Park, Hyun-Woo A Case of Sparganosis in the Leg |
title | A Case of Sparganosis in the Leg |
title_full | A Case of Sparganosis in the Leg |
title_fullStr | A Case of Sparganosis in the Leg |
title_full_unstemmed | A Case of Sparganosis in the Leg |
title_short | A Case of Sparganosis in the Leg |
title_sort | case of sparganosis in the leg |
topic | Case Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3018580/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21234233 http://dx.doi.org/10.3347/kjp.2010.48.4.309 |
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