Ultrasonographic findings of Diphyllobothrium nihonkaiense: A case report

A 6-year-old girl was admitted to our hospital due to discharging the strobila of a tapeworm (Diphyllobothrium nihonkaiense) from her anus. Before excreting the tapeworm completely with anthelmintics, ultrasonography was performed. The tapeworm was shown as a slightly high echoic strand-like lesion...

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Autores principales: Hiroshima, Marehiko, Nakagawa, Motoo, Ito, Yasuhiko, Shiba, Ayano, Ozawa, Yoshiyuki, Shibamoto, Yuta
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2018
Materias:
Sonography
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6197549/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30364594
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.radcr.2018.09.028
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Sumario:A 6-year-old girl was admitted to our hospital due to discharging the strobila of a tapeworm (Diphyllobothrium nihonkaiense) from her anus. Before excreting the tapeworm completely with anthelmintics, ultrasonography was performed. The tapeworm was shown as a slightly high echoic strand-like lesion on ultrasonography in the terminal ileum. In this strand-like lesion, some high echoic spots were detected. This finding was considered as a characteristic of Diphylloborthriasis.

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