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Trichinosis: infrequent diagnosis or frequent misdiagnosis?
J W Morse1, R Ridenour, P Unterseher
1Department of Emergency Medicine, Ehrling Bergquist Hospital, Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska.
Annals of Emergency Medicine
|November 1, 1994
Abstract:
Trichinosis, a disease of wild and domestic animals caused by the nematode Trichinella spiralis, is an infrequently diagnosed infection in human beings. We present the case of a 33-year-old man with trichinosis whose diagnosis was complicated by the presence of maxillary sinusitis.