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A case of breast sparganosis  

Sim, Seo-Bo (Department of Parasitology and Institute of Tropical medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine)
You, Jai-Kyung (Department of Radiology, Inje University College of Medicine)
Lee, In-Young (Department of Parasitology and Institute of Tropical medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine)
Im, Kyung-Il (Department of Parasitology and Institute of Tropical medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine)
Young, Tai-Soon (Department of Parasitology and Institute of Tropical medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine)
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Parasites, Hosts and Diseases / v.40, no.4, 2002 , pp. 187-189 More about this Journal
Abstract
A 29-year-old Korean woman visited the Department of Surgery in MizMedi Hospital with a palpable itching mass on the right breast that had existed for the past 7 months. She had no history to eat either frogs or snakes, but had the history of drinking impure water. Sonography revealed a serpiginous hypoechoic tubular structure associated with partial fat necrosis in breast parenchymal layer and subcutaneous fat layer. It also revealed oval cystic lesions. At operation, an ivory white opaque ribbon-like worm that measured 16.5 cm in length and 0.5 cm in width was extracted. Anti-sparganum specific serum IgG level in the patient's serum (absorbance = 0.71), measured by ELISA, was found to be significantly higher than those of normal controls (cut off point = 0.21) . Sonography and ELISA appear to be helpful to diagnose sparganosis. Breast sparganosis is rarely found throughout the world.
Keywords
sparganosis; breast; ultrasonography;
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