Disseminated parasitosis in an immunosuppressed patient. Possibly a mutated sparganum.
The autopsy of a man who died of Hodgkin disease revealed that a peculiar metazoan parasite had proliferated and disseminated throughout his body. The parasite could not be identified; however, electron microscopical studies revealed that it had the structure of a flatworm. This, together with its shape and structure, convinced us that the parasite was an aberrant sparganum manifesting uncontrolled proliferation and dissemination.
D001808:Blood Vessels / Q000469:parasitology / Q000648:ultrastructure; D002589:Cestoda; D002590:Cestode Infections / Q000469:parasitology*; D003593:Cytoplasm / Q000648:ultrastructure; D006689:Hodgkin Disease / Q000469:parasitology* / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D007165:Immunosuppression Therapy / Q000009:adverse effects*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009154:Mutation; D013032:Sparganum / Q000648:ultrastructure