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A Case of Sparganosis in the Leg

  • Lee, Kyung-Joon (Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Dankook University College of Medicine) ;
  • Myung, Na-Hye (Department of Pathology, Dankook University College of Medicine) ;
  • Park, Hyun-Woo (Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Dankook University College of Medicine)
  • Received : 2010.06.22
  • Accepted : 2010.10.15
  • Published : 2010.12.31
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Abstract

The life-span of the sparganum in humans is not exactly known, but it may survive longer than 5 years in some patients. We experienced a case infected with a sparganum that is presumed to have lived for 20 years in a patient's leg. The patient was a 60-year-old woman, and she was admitted to a hospital due to ankle pain that was aggravated on dorsiflexion. She had noticed a mass on her knee some 20 years ago, but she received no medical management for it. The mass moved into the ankle joint 3 months before the current admission, and then the aforementioned symptoms appeared. A living sparganum was recovered by surgery, and the calcified tract near the knee was proved to be the pathway along which the larva had passed.

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