Liver abscess caused by Ascaris lumbricoides: case report

• Main Authors: Análida Elizabeth PINILLA, Myriam Consuelo LÓPEZ, Orlando RICAURTE, Blanca CASTILLO, Martha Isabel MURCIA, Rubén Santiago NICHOLLS, Sofía DUQUE, Luis Carlos OROZCO
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Universidade de São Paulo (USP) 2001
• Subjects: Liver abscess; Ascaris; Amebiasis; Diagnosis; Colombia; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Infectious and parasitic diseases; RC109-216; Arctic; Charcot
• Online Access: https://doaj.org/article/2c379ea0567d4c63a4ad48bccd193675

A case is reported of a woman who lived in a rural area with a chronic illness that consisted of weight loss and abdominal pain in the epigastrium and upper right quadrant. The initial diagnosis was a mass in the liver, which was later, demonstrated, both by direct and histological examination, to be an abscess caused by Ascaris lumbricoides. Eggs of Ascaris lumbricoides and abundant Charcot-Leyden Crystals were found.