Episternal abscess due to fascioliasis in an Etesot in Uganda

Neurological and Ocular Fascioliasis in Humans

“…Only a few ectopic cases have been reported to be caused by F. gigantica (Doby and Beaucournu, 1970;Fain et al, 1973;Le et al, 2007;Ongom, 1980;Paraf et al, 1967;Ragab and Farag, 1978;Stemmermann, 1953;Xuan et al, 2005), in spite of having been noted to be able to give rise to ectopic lesions more commonly than F. hepatica (Boray, 1966).…”

“…A chronological analysis of the neurological reports, after excluding the decades of the two world wars, shows a progressive increase of the number of reports, with only a slight decrease of this trend in 1980-1999. Moreover, the chronology of the reports also indicates that, in France, a kind of hospital reporting trend on neurological findings in fascioliasis patients appears evident between the end of the 1950s and the mid-1980s, markedly declining thereafter.…”

“…A 2 cm long F. gigantica specimen noted to be mature was found in an abdominal mass in Egypt (Ragab and Farag, 1978). Another 16 mm long specimen of F. gigantica, with intrauterine eggs of 140 mm by 75 mm, was obtained on incision of an anterior swelling of a 2-month duration in the upper third of the sternum of a 17-year-old male in Uganda (Ongom, 1980).…”