Abdominal pain due to Enterobius vermicularis.
The authors describe an unusual case of an 11-year-old girl who had right lower quadrant pain due to unilateral salpingitis, suppurative omentitis and periappendicitis. The etiologic agent was the parasite Enterobius vermicularis. A review of the literature revealed that pinworm may be the cause not only of appendicitis, but of inflammatory reactions in other intra-abdominal sites and that the frequency of this occurrence is probably higher than has previously been suspected.
D000006:Abdomen, Acute / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology*; D001064:Appendicitis / Q000175:diagnosis; D002648:Child; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007249:Inflammation; D009852:Omentum; D010123:Oxyuriasis / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D012488:Salpingitis / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis