Korean J Parasitol.  1981 Aug;19(1):81-85. 10.3347/kjp.1981.19.1.81.

Splenic paragonimiasis: A case in a dog

Affiliations
  • 1Department of Pathology, College of Medicine, Seoul National University, Korea.
  • 2Department of Parasitology, Catholic Medical College, Seoul, Korea.

Abstract

A case of Paragonimus westermani cysts found deep inside the spleen is described. This spleen was from a dog that was experimentally infected via oral route with a hundred metacercariae and was killed 3 months after. At autopsy, beside the usual lesions due to Paragonimus in the lungs, the spleen was the site of multiple parasitic cysts. The involved spleen was slightly enlarged and showed an area of hemorrhagic dome on the capsular surface. There found a total of 8 adult worms in four well demarcated parasitic cysts containing a pair of worms each. All of them were found deep into the splenic parenchyme and were surrounded by a well formed connective tissue wall, thus resembling the features of the pulmonary paragonimiasis. The route of infection was assumed to be a direct transcapsular invasion during the phase of larval migration.


MeSH Terms

parasitology-helminth-trematoda
paragonimiasis
Paragonimus westermani
dog
case report
spleen
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