RESUMO

A case is reported of a woman who lived in a rural area with a chronic illness that consisted of weight loss and abdominal pain in the epigastrium and upper right quadrant. The initial diagnosis was a mass in the liver, which was later, demonstrated, both by direct and histological examination, to be an abscess caused by Ascaris lumbricoides. Eggs of Ascaris lumbricoides and abundant Charcot-Leyden Crystals were found.

Assuntos

Ascaris lumbricoides/isolamento & purificação , Abscesso Hepático/parasitologia , Animais , Feminino , Humanos , Abscesso Hepático/diagnóstico , Pessoa de Meia-Idade