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Cryptic infection by whipworm mimicking a sessile polyp of the colon
S Pampiglione1, F Rivasi, C Rubbiani
1Department of Veterinary Public Health and Animal Pathology, University of Bologna, Italy.
Italian Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology
|August 1, 1997
Abstract:
A case of trichocephaliasis in a 70-year-old male is described. The original diagnosis, based on radiological and endoscopic findings, was of a sessile polyp of the colon. Only when a fragment of the supposed polyp was removed at biopsy and examined histologically was it revealed as a single male specimen of whipworm.