1Departent of Parasitology, Pathology and Institute of Endemic Diseases, College of Medicine, Seoul National University, Seoul, 110, Korea. 2Department of Pathology, General Surgery and Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, Yeung Nam University, Taegu, 634, Korea.
The authors would record the fifth case of human fascioliasis in Korea, occurring in a 48 year old Korean man who lived in Munkyong, Kyongsangbuk-do. The diagnosis was based on the morphology and measurements of the eggs which were collected in necrotic debris from the tunnel-like ulcerations of the gallbladder wall which was surgically removed for a gall stone. Although we failed to find out the fluke in the specimen, there found an evidence of once presence of Fasciola in the inflamed wall of the gallbladder in this patient.
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