Monday, August 23, 2010

Case of the Week 128

The following were seen on an unstained "squash prep" of a diaphragm biopsy. Diagnosis? (CLICK ON IMAGES TO ENLARGE)



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4 comments:

  1. AnonymousAugust 23, 2010 at 12:56 PM

    This is very cool - where do you get these. The only sprial thing I know in muscle is Trichinosis spiralis although I think there are other species. Assuming I'm close I'll be curious if there is any significance to the various trichinosis species and and how to sort.

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  2. PBAAugust 23, 2010 at 4:49 PM

    Maybe toxocariasis, visceral larva migrans or trichinosis. Very nice!

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  3. AnonymousAugust 25, 2010 at 11:10 AM

    Trichinella spiralis

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  4. AnonymousAugust 27, 2010 at 9:25 AM

    Trichinella spiralis larvae. They all seem to be enveloped in a cyst so I don't think they're T. pseudospiralis.

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