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Unusual dinner may have led to tapeworm 50 years later
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Venilla Yoganathan
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A 71-year-old man had a 25cm tapeworm removed from his groin area, 50 years after he consumed raw snake meat during military service. The rare parasitic infection, known as sparganosis, was discovered incidentally during hernia surgery.
During surgery to repair a hernia in a 71-year-old man’s right groin, his doctors discovered something unexpected: a tapeworm. The surgeons carefully fished out the 25cm-long worm and recorded the extraction of this infection rarely seen in the peritoneal cavity. Even outside the body, the live worm could be seen undulating on the table.
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