Human ocular sparganosis in southern Brazil

We report the first case of human ocular sparganosis in the state of Santa Catarina, southern Brazil. A young female patient presented with three periocular moveable inflammatory masses in her right eye, during two years. By surgical excisional biopsy, a helminth larval stage was removed and identif...

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Published in:Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo
Main Authors: Márcia Bohrer Mentz, Fernando Procianoy, Marcelo Krieger Maestri, Marilise Brittes Rott
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Universidade de São Paulo (USP) 2011
Subjects:
Human ocular sparganosis
Spirometra
Sparganum
Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine
RC955-962
Infectious and parasitic diseases
RC109-216
Arctic
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1590/S0036-46652011000100009
https://doaj.org/article/8201222a287f4e5d96da629f8398eff5
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Summary:We report the first case of human ocular sparganosis in the state of Santa Catarina, southern Brazil. A young female patient presented with three periocular moveable inflammatory masses in her right eye, during two years. By surgical excisional biopsy, a helminth larval stage was removed and identified as sparganum. Clinical, laboratory and epidemiological data on this parasite are presented.

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