Unusual Location of a Parasitosis

Case Report

Austin Pathol. 2019; 2(1): 1009.

Unusual Location of a Parasitosis

Damiri A1,2*, Chahdi Ouazzani H1,2, Setti K1,2 and Oukabli M1,2

1Department of Anatomy and Pathology Cytology. Military Hospital Mohammed V Rabat Morocco

2Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy of Rabat (FMPR), Mohamed V Rabat University, Morocco

*Corresponding author: Damiri A, Department of Anatomy and Pathology Cytology. Mohamed V Rabat University, Morocco

Received: July 12, 2019; Accepted: September 06, 2019; Published: September 13, 2019

Abstract

Oxyuriasis is an intestinal parasitosis, frequent, strictly human, caused by a cosmopolitan roundworm: Enterobius vermicularis. Pinworms are mainly localized in intestine but can sometimes be found in the female genitalia, even if it is rare.

Our case is a young man of 32 who has an anterior history of inconstant anal pruritus but and who presented a pruriginous and painless subcutaneous nodule and who benefited from an excisional biopsy whose pathological examination revealed the presence of sections of nematodes corresponding to female pinworms within a fibro-fatty tissue.

Oxyuriasis is mainly intestinal, sometimes with an uro-genital location, especially in women, but no case has been described at the subcutaneous level, hence the interest of this work in revealing new possible locations of this parasitosis.

Keywords: Pathology, Oxyuriasis, Subcutaneous, Flubendazol

Abbreviations

HE: Hemalin Eosine; G: magnification

Introduction

Oxyuriasis is an intestinal parasitosis, frequent, strictly human, caused by a cosmopolitan roundworm: Enterobius vermicularis. The pinworms are mainly localized in the intestine but can sometimes be found in the female genitals, but their location in the labia minora is much rarer [1].

Adult male and female worms live in the colon. Before dying, fertilized females migrate at night to the anus to lay an average of 10,000 eggs. The eggs thus deposited take 4 to 6 hours to become infectious. They are then transferred to clothing, bedding and dust. Eggs can survive for 15 to 20 days in the environment. Most often, they are transported by the hands (they are mostly found under the nails) and then ingested by the person already infected (selfinoculation) or by a different host.

The ingested eggs hatch in the stomach under the influence of digestive juices and release larvae that migrate to the small intestine. In the intestine, the larvae moult to become adult in 5 to 6 weeks. Worms live about 1 month in the intestine.

Case Presentation

Our patient is a 32-year-old man with no specific history other than an inconstant anal pruritus and who discovered the presence of a subcutaneous nodule at the sacral region, pruritic and painless measuring 1.5 cm and which does not evolve with time. The patient decided to consult a dermatologist who prescribed a dermocorticoid for 1 month without any improvement. After a consultation with a surgeon, a decision to make surgical resection of the nodule was made.

We received in our laboratory a fragment of 1.2x1 cm of yellowish color and soft consistency that was cut in half and included entirely in a block (Figure 1).