A case of pseudotumorous form of ascaris.
A 35-year-old woman presented with lower abdominal pain and amenorrhoea. CT showed a thick walled lobulated mass with Ascaris adjacent to caecum along with the presence of a left ovarian mass. The peroperative findings were a tubular mass with central tunneling containing an Ascaris lumbricoides. Left ovary showed a haemorrhagic cyst. Biopsy of the mass showed acute on chronic granulomatous inflammation and the worm was found to be female. This was a rare case of Ascaris lumbricoides presenting as a pseudotumorous mass.
Bokhari
Iram
I
Department of Surgery, Ward No. 3, Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre, Karachi. i_bokhari@hotmail.com
Tahir
Qurrat-ul-Ain
QU
Khan
Nawaid Farooque
NF
Ali
Nasir
N
Khan
Asadullah
A
D015746:Abdominal Pain; D034861:Abdominal Wall; D000328:Adult; D000818:Animals; D000871:Anthelmintics / Q000627:therapeutic use; D001196:Ascariasis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000601:surgery; D017164:Ascaris lumbricoides / Q000302:isolation & purification* / Q000502:physiology; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006104:Granuloma, Plasma Cell / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000469:parasitology / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D010048:Ovarian Cysts / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis
D000871:Anthelmintics