Trichinella spiralis: incidental finding
dc.contributor.author | Kaminsky, RG | |
dc.contributor.author | Zimmerman, RR | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2015-07-17T07:07:53Z | |
dc.date.available | 2015-07-17T07:07:53Z | |
dc.date.issued | 1977 | |
dc.identifier.citation | East African Medical Journal 1977 Vol. 54 No. 11 pp. 643-646 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://www.cabdirect.org/abstracts/19780844254.html?resultNumber=7&q=au%3A%22Kaminsky%2C+R.+G.%22 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11295/88053 | |
dc.description.abstract | The case is presented of a 46-year-old male Kikuyu in Kenya with a one-month history of severe pruritus followed by progressive swelling of the right eye. A well differentiated lymphocytic lymphoma involving the periorbital connective tissue and extraocular muscles was seen. An incidental finding was an encapsulated Trichinella spiralis larva within the extraocular muscle. In an addendum a further incidental finding of T. spiralis is reported. 12 encapsulated larvae were found in otherwise healthy-looking muscle fibres in a biopsy taken from a suppurating back lesion. The implications for assessment of the true incidence of T. spiralis in man in Kenya are briefly discussed. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | University of Nairobi | en_US |
dc.title | Trichinella spiralis: incidental finding | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.type.material | en | en_US |
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