Unusual clinical case: extraluminal manifestation of a tapeworm from the eviscerated midline incision in a post-surgery patient

• DOI: 10.3855/jidc.5153
• Publication Date: 2015-04-15T21:40:23Z
• Authors: Ahmet Cem Dural; Muhammet Ferhat C...; Baha Temizgonul; Mustafa Gokhan Unsal; Cevher Akarsu; Murat Gonenc; Mustafa Uygar Kal...; Halil Alis
• Keywords: Male; Obstetric Vesicovaginal Fistula and Ureteral Injuries; Obstetrics and Gynecology; Taenia saginata; Middle Aged; Cestode Infections; Biological, Epidemiological, and Clinical Aspects of Echinococcosis; Pathology and Forensic Medicine; 3. Good health; Treatment; 03 medical and health sciences; Fatal Outcome; 0302 clinical medicine; Intestinal Perforation; Stomach Neoplasms; Health Sciences; Animals; Humans; Surgical Wound Infection; Medicine; Radiography, Thoracic; Surgery

Taenia saginata infestation is one of the most common cestode infestations in humans, that may cause gastrointestinal tract related complications as a result obstruction, perforation or anastomotic leakage. A 55-year-old male patient who was receiving palliative chemotherapy for stage IV gastric cancer admitted to emergency department abdominal pain. hollow viscus organ diagnosed and an surgery performed. On postoperative day 5, patient’s midline incision eviscerated moving taenia emerged, with abundant particulated fluid from line. The due suspected bowel perforation. During exploration, relaxed purse stitch feeding tube observed no other perforations were seen. underwent two planned cavity lavage after removal cestode. Unfortunately, died sixteen days his admission intensive care unit. This first case describing extraluminal manifestation tapeworm evisceration without intestinal