Monday, January 12, 2009

Case of the Week 53

Shown is an iron-hematoxylin stain of a concentrated fecal preparation. What are the organisms shown and what is the significance of finding them?

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  1. AnonymousJanuary 14, 2009 at 5:39 PM

    I'll stick my neck on the line and go for Iodamoeba buetschlii cysyt. The cyst is uninucleate with a large karyosome. There is also a large glycogen mass. The significance is that the cyst is at its infective stage. -- Chris H

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  2. AnonymousJanuary 14, 2009 at 10:08 PM

    I think it's entameba histolytica and the significance it that this pt needs tx so that he doesn't develop brain abscesses, etc.

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