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

Author(s):

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

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

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

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

5. 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.

Page(s): 663-664

DOI: DOI not available

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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