Deep onchocercomata close to the thigh bones of a Liberian patient.
During nodulectomies on a 53 year old Liberian woman, multiple onchocercomata were detected on the femur distal to the greater trochanter on both sides of the body. The nodules were attached to the periosteum. This location along the shaft of the thigh bone provides a further hint as to where clinically undetectable deep onchocercomata can be located.
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Department of Helminthology, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, FRG.
D000818:Animals; D005260:Female; D005269:Femur / Q000469:parasitology*; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D009854:Onchocerca; D009855:Onchocerciasis / Q000469:parasitology*; D010521:Periosteum / Q000469:parasitology*