eosinophilic granuloma/abdominal pain

This is a case report of intestinal eosinophilic granuloma caused by Ascaris ova and worm which is supposed to be rare in Korea. CASE: A 23 year old healthy female reached Pusan Sanitation Hospital with complaints of high fever and abdominal pain on December 3 in 1966. Examination: Her temperature

A 42-year-old Thai man from central Thailand came to Ramathibodi Hospital with the complaint of abdominal pain. Physical examination revealed localized tenderness in the right lower quadrant. The clinical impression was acute appendicitis and an operation was performed, revealing a large mass in the

Children with the clinical syndrome of visceral larva migrans as a result of Toxocara species have typical lesions in the liver and other viscera, consisting of palisading granulomas that contain numerous eosinophils and often Charcot-Leyden crystals; recognizable parasites are uncommon. Similar

The emergency physician is frequently frustrated by the symptom of recurrent abdominal pain. This complaint is particularly troubling when the patient localizes the pain to the right lower quadrant. On an isolated visit, acute appendicitis is the condition which demands primary consideration,

BACKGROUND Churg-Strauss syndrome (CSS) is a systemic disease characterized by asthma, blood and tissue eosinophilia, and necrotizing vasculitis with extravascular eosinophilic granulomas. METHODS We describe two cases of patients with CSS: a 56-year-old man, whose presentation was highly unusual

Eosinophilic necrotizing granulomas in the liver, known as visceral larva migrans (VLM), are a rare cause of liver abscesses. The term VLM refers to infections in human tissues caused by the larval stages of ascarid worms of dogs and cats. We report two cases of VLM which presented with high grade

Anisakidosis (previously known as anisakiasis) is a disease caused by the accidental ingestion of larval nematodes (Anisakis and sometimes Pseudoterranova) in raw fish. Two groups of patients are studied: 5 clinical cases and 20 serological diagnoses. 55 French cases are already published. Most of

We report a rare case of Churg-Strauss syndrome (CSS) in a 41-year-old Japanese man with a history of middle-age onset of bronchial asthma who had severe abdominal pain. He presented with ileus caused by an annular ulcer of the ileum, attributable to mucosal ischemia resulting from necrotizing

An eosinophilic granuloma was found in the operative specimen from a patient who underwent colonic resection eleven days after onset of abdominal pain. Upon questioning, the patient reported having eaten raw fish eggs (cod) on the day before the onset of abdominal pain. Colonic localization of this

Anisakis simplex is a nematode which can parasitize many different kinds of fish or cephalopods (codfish, salmon, tuna, mackerel, hake, etc). Anisakis simplex can cause different diseases in humans. The human being acquires the larvae by eating raw or undercooked seafood. Acute anisakiasis is

Inflammatory fibroid polyp (IFP) is an infrequent condition of the digestive tract which is most often observed in the gastric antrum and ileum. It is known by several synonyms (Vanek tumour, eosinophilic granuloma, etc.) and is sometimes mistaken for eosinophilic gastroenteritis. Its main clinical

A 34-year-old male living in Aichi Prefecture, Japan, complained of lower abdominal pain. Ileus was suspected based on his clinical history and symptoms, and a laparotomy was performed. Four sections of a nematode were found in a large eosinophilic granuloma in the intestinal wall, and were

We report the first case of hepatic capillariasis in Maine. The patient was a 54-year-old male carpenter who presented with a subacute history of severe abdominal pain, fevers, and weight loss. Initial diagnostic studies suggested a hepatic mass associated with para-aortic lymphadenopathy. The