H. Kohatsu et al., A SPACE-OCCUPYING LESION IN THE LIVER DUE TO CAPILLARIA INFECTION, The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene, 52(5), 1995, pp. 414-418
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Public, Environmental & Occupation Heath","Tropical Medicine
A space-occupying lesion 3.5 by 2.0 cm in size caused by Capillaria in
fection was revealed ultrasonographically in segment 6 (S6) of the liv
er of a 32-year-old woman from Okinawa, Japan, who was hospitalized wi
th a complaint of pain in the right upper quadrant. Laboratory examina
tion showed leukocytosis of 10,400/mm(3) with 22% eosinophils and slig
ht impairment of liver function. The tumor was removed surgically and
found to be a necrotic granuloma with eosinophilic infiltration formed
around a degenerated nematode. The causative agent was presumed to be
Capillaria hepatica based on the morphology of the bacillary bands an
d stichosome observed in the sectioned worm and in the fragments of wo
rm recovered by dissecting the tumor tissue that was embedded in paraf
fin.