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Saudi Journal of Medicine (SJM)
Volume-4 | Issue-07 | 542-544
Case Report
Unusual Location of a Parasitosis
Damiri A, Chahdi H, Setti K, Oukabli M
Published : July 30, 2019
DOI : 10.36348/sjm.2019.v04i07.012
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
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