Trichinosis: infrequent diagnosis or frequent misdiagnosis?
Trichinosis, a disease of wild and domestic animals caused by the nematode Trichinella spiralis, is an infrequently diagnosed infection in human beings. We present the case of a 33-year-old man with trichinosis whose diagnosis was complicated by the presence of maxillary sinusitis.
Department of Emergency Medicine, Ehrling Bergquist Hospital, Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska.
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D000328:Adult; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D003951:Diagnostic Errors; D004636:Emergency Service, Hospital; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D015523:Maxillary Sinusitis / Q000150:complications*; D014235:Trichinellosis / Q000097:blood / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy