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The visceral larva migrans caused by Toxocara canis: a case report

Hepatic toxocarosis is caused by the dog´s roundworm, Toxocara canis. Responsible for an eosinophilic inflammatory syndrome causing liver damage that can be detected on ultrasound, computed tomography and sometimes magnetic resonance imaging. We report the case of a nine-year-old child, living in co...

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Autores principales: Gakosso, Labretesche Gracia Christ, Baadi, Fatima, Abakka, Fatima Zahra, Basraoui, Dounia, Jalal, Hicham
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Publicado: The African Field Epidemiology Network 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7436642/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32874414
http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2020.36.150.24176
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author Gakosso, Labretesche Gracia Christ
Baadi, Fatima
Abakka, Fatima Zahra
Basraoui, Dounia
Jalal, Hicham
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description Hepatic toxocarosis is caused by the dog´s roundworm, Toxocara canis. Responsible for an eosinophilic inflammatory syndrome causing liver damage that can be detected on ultrasound, computed tomography and sometimes magnetic resonance imaging. We report the case of a nine-year-old child, living in countryside, with a notion of cohabitation with canids. He presented a digestive symptomatology revealed by abdominal pain, with a hemeosinophilia in the hemogram. The etiological assessment of hyper eosinophilia objectified a positive Toxocara canisserology. The imaging assessment in search of digestive visceral lesions, found multiple heterogeneous hypoechogenic areas, poorly defined, scattered in the liver. On the abdominal CT scan, its areas appear of unenhanced density and low density and better visible after injection of contrast product. This observation reveals that imagery, although not very specific, helps in the assessment of liver damage from digestive toxocarosis.
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spelling pubmed-74366422020-08-31 The visceral larva migrans caused by Toxocara canis: a case report Gakosso, Labretesche Gracia Christ Baadi, Fatima Abakka, Fatima Zahra Basraoui, Dounia Jalal, Hicham Pan Afr Med J Case Report Hepatic toxocarosis is caused by the dog´s roundworm, Toxocara canis. Responsible for an eosinophilic inflammatory syndrome causing liver damage that can be detected on ultrasound, computed tomography and sometimes magnetic resonance imaging. We report the case of a nine-year-old child, living in countryside, with a notion of cohabitation with canids. He presented a digestive symptomatology revealed by abdominal pain, with a hemeosinophilia in the hemogram. The etiological assessment of hyper eosinophilia objectified a positive Toxocara canisserology. The imaging assessment in search of digestive visceral lesions, found multiple heterogeneous hypoechogenic areas, poorly defined, scattered in the liver. On the abdominal CT scan, its areas appear of unenhanced density and low density and better visible after injection of contrast product. This observation reveals that imagery, although not very specific, helps in the assessment of liver damage from digestive toxocarosis. The African Field Epidemiology Network 2020-07-03 /pmc/articles/PMC7436642/ /pubmed/32874414 http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2020.36.150.24176 Text en Copyright: Labretesche Gracia Christ Gakosso et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 The Pan African Medical Journal (ISSN: 1937-8688). This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution International 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Gakosso, Labretesche Gracia Christ
Baadi, Fatima
Abakka, Fatima Zahra
Basraoui, Dounia
Jalal, Hicham
The visceral larva migrans caused by Toxocara canis: a case report
title The visceral larva migrans caused by Toxocara canis: a case report
title_full The visceral larva migrans caused by Toxocara canis: a case report
title_fullStr The visceral larva migrans caused by Toxocara canis: a case report
title_full_unstemmed The visceral larva migrans caused by Toxocara canis: a case report
title_short The visceral larva migrans caused by Toxocara canis: a case report
title_sort visceral larva migrans caused by toxocara canis: a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7436642/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32874414
http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2020.36.150.24176
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