A Case of Pseudotumorous Form of Ascaris | Journal of College of Physicians and Surgeons--Pakistan : JCPSP 2009

Author(s)

Iram Bokhari Department of Surgery, Ward No. 3, Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre, Karachi, Pakistan

Nawaid Farooque Khan Department of Surgery, Ward No. 3, Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre, Karachi, Pakistan

Qurrat-ul-Ain Tahir Department of Surgery, Ward No. 3, Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre, Karachi, Pakistan

Nasir Ali Department of Surgery, Ward No. 3, Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre, Karachi, Pakistan

Asadullah Khan Department of Surgery, Ward No. 3, Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre, Karachi, Pakistan

Abstract

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.

Publication Details

Page(s) 663-664

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Published Journal: Journal of College of Physicians and Surgeons--Pakistan : JCPSP, Volume: 19, Issue: 10, Year: 2009

Keywords

abdomen Ascaris Pseudotumor Chronic granuloma

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