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Please note that all opinions expressed here are mine and not my employer. Information provided is for educational purposes only. It is not intended as and does not substitute for medical advice. I do not accept medical consults from patients.
The Fine Print:
Please note that all opinions expressed here are mine and not my employer. Information provided is for educational purposes only. It is not intended as and does not substitute for medical advice. I do not accept medical consults from patients.
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7 comments:
Protoescoleces of Echinococcus granulosus.
In the second image you can see the row of hooklets.
In our hospital (south american) this parasite is becoming more and more usual.
-HLCM fan.
Agree but then how could we differentiate it with E. multilokularis?
Agree with Echinococcus identification.
Florida Fan
This may be a sample of hydatid sand (leakage from hydatid cyst which contains protoscolics and free hooklets from Echinococcus granulosus. Why it is not E. multilocularis? I think because E. multilocularis is usually sterile( no hooklets and protoscolics) and I do not think it can be found in the lung (usually it is in the liver).However, It could be E. vogeli or E. oligathus.
Yasir
Agree with Echinococcus spp. (Hooklets)
Lee
Protoscoleces of Echinococcus spp. (It could E. granulosis or multilocularis rather than vogeli or oligarthus which are very rare in humans)
Dima El Safadi
E.granulosis
The salty taste comes from the content of a ruptured cyst.
E.multilocularis doesn't form cysts
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