Abigail L. Carlson,a Nattapol Pruetpongpun,b Aubonphan Buppajarntham,b Pansachee Damronglerd,b Neil W. Anderson,c Anucha Apisarnthanarakb Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USAa; Division of Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, Thammasat University Hospital, Pathumthani, Thailandb; Department of Pathology ...

A 60-year-old man was admitted due to rectosigmoid colon cancer, and a hepatic mass was incidentally found during the staging work-up. The mass appeared cystic with a thick wall and contained multiple bizarre cord-like structures on ultrasound, computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging. The differential diagnoses included organizing abscess/hematoma, foreign body granuloma and parasite...

The recent clinical image by Kumar and Mohan is very interesting1. In fact, the finding is not extremely uncommon in tropical countries. Based on our experience in Thailand, the prevalence is about 1/1000. An important consideration is the presumptive diagnosis of subcutaneous cysticercosis. Indeed, another important parasitosis that might present similar finding in chest radiography is spargan...

The author reported previously on separation of the outer tegument of the spargana (plerocercoids of Spirometra mansoni) using high concentration of urea solution. To determine which layer of the tegument is separated by this method, an electron microscopic analysis has been processed in this study. It was confirmed that the basement layer of the tegument is separated from the parenchyme of the...