Southeast Asian Journal of Tropical Medicine and Public Health. Vol.12, No.3 (1981), 376-379
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S. Ratanarapee, S. Jesadapatarakul, K. Mangkalanond Spontaneous exit of a gnathostome through a surgical wound. Southeast Asian Journal of Tropical Medicine and Public Health. Vol.12, No.3 (1981), 376-379. Retrieved from: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/123456789/30214
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Spontaneous exit of a gnathostome through a surgical wound
A case of subcutaneous gnathostomiasis in which subsequently a gnathostome larva crept out through a surgical wound in a 22-year-old Thai male is described. This case disclosed that although a worm may creep out of the body through certain natural passages as well as the skin, spontaneous exit via a surgical wound is a possibility. Based on the morphology and number of the head-bulb hooklets and cuticular spines by light and electron microscopy the gnathostome was confirmed as a third stage larva of Gnathos toma spinigerum.
