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KMID : 0425120100480040309
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Parasites, Hosts and Diseases
2010 Volume.48 No. 4 p.309 ~ p.312
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A Case of Sparganosis in the Leg
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Lee Kyung-Joon
Park Hyun-Woo
Myung Na-Hye
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Abstract
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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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KEYWORD
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sparganum, sparganosis, leg
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