1/1. Disseminated parasitosis in an immunosuppressed patient. Possibly a mutated sparganum.The autopsy of a man who died of hodgkin disease revealed that a peculiar metazoan parasite had proliferated and disseminated throughout his body. The parasite could not be identified; however, electron microscopical studies revealed that it had the structure of a flatworm. This, together with its shape and structure, convinced us that the parasite was an aberrant sparganum manifesting uncontrolled proliferation and dissemination.- - - - - - - - - - ranking = 1keywords = parasitosis (Clic here for more details about this article) |