Background: Appendicitis is most likely due to obstruction of the appendiceal lumen. Parasitosis an unusual cause and in specific, Taenia Saginata a very rare appendicitis, even more so small bowel perforation. Teiniosis usually asymptomatic process but greater load or migration adult form may complicate some cases. The simultaneous occurrence acute appendicitis ileal perforation same setting h...

Hydatid disease is a parasitic infestation by a tapeworm of the genus Echinococcus. We present the case of 34-year-old female who complained of chest pain and had a past history of hydatid cyst resection four times in last 15 years. She was found to have extrapleural hyatid cysts of chest that were removed via thoracotomy. The patient fully recovered and experienced an uneventful follow-up.

Hydatid disease is a parasitic infestation caused by the larval form of the cestode worm Echinococcus. The most commonly encountered form of the disease is visceral hydatid cyst caused by Echinococcus granulosus or dog tapeworm. Muscular involvement has been reported in only 3-4% cases. We are reporting this case because of its rarity, difficulty to diagnose clinically, dramatic response to med...

Neurocysticercosis, infection of the central nervous system (CNS) by larvae of the pork tapeworm Taenia solium, is the commonest neuroparasitic infection in humans. However in countries as in Malaysia it poses a diagnostic problem as the disease in not seen amongst the local population; however with the arrival of immigrant workers, a number of cases have recently been diagnosed. There were 3 c...

Following its termination by the antihelminthic Yomesan, a primary infection due to the administration of 50 H. diminuta cysticercoids has no significant influence on the abundance, length or dry mass of tapeworms in a secondary infection of 7, 13 and 42 days, or 8 months duration in WAG alb. rats. Crowded primary and secondary tapeworm infections experienced only slightly greater proportional ...

WHERE HYDATID DISEASE is endemic, it is a serious cause of ill health, disability and death. Ulster is almost free from hydatid disease. The diagnostic index of the Royal Victoria Hospital contains only two cases, one of which is recorded in this note. Tlwo other cases have been reported by Fraser (1930) and Dales (1955). This freedom is less due to any planned precaution than to the operation ...

The Phylum Platyhelminthes is divided into two groups: cestodes (tapeworms) and trematodes (flukes). Tapeworms live in vertebrate intestines, their larval forms can be found the flesh of animals that these eat. adult tapeworm has no digestive tract instead absorbs nutrients through its body surface. worm's head, or scolex, a mechanism for attaching to host's intestinal wall. Knowledge basic epi...