| Literature DB >> 19967090 |
Chan-Woong Park1, Jong-Soon Kim, Hyun-Soo Joo, Jin Kim.
Abstract
A 33-year-old Korean man visited a medical clinic with complaints of throat discomfort and pain for one week. The symptoms occurred one day after eating raw brackish water fish, perch. Endoscopy revealed a fluke, about 5 mm in length, attaching to and peristaltically moving on the surface of the mucosa at the arytenoid region of the larynx. Microscopically, the testes were triangular, tandem, and separated by the uterus. The ovary and cirrus pouch were placed apart from median line between testes. Numerous blood cells were observed in the ceca. The worm was identified to be Clinostomum complanatum. This is the second human case of clinostomiasis in Korea.Entities:
Keywords: Clinostomum complanatum; Korea; brackish water fish; human case
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Year: 2009 PMID: 19967090 PMCID: PMC2788721 DOI: 10.3347/kjp.2009.47.4.401
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Korean J Parasitol ISSN: 0023-4001 Impact factor: 1.341