A rare case of a 39 year old male with a parasite called Dioctophyma renale mimicking renal cancer at the computed tomography of the right kidney. A case report

Ioannis Katafigiotis; Evangelos Fragkiadis; Christos Pournaras; Afrodite Nonni; Konstantinos G Stravodimos

doi:10.1016/j.parint.2013.06.007

A rare case of a 39 year old male with a parasite called Dioctophyma renale mimicking renal cancer at the computed tomography of the right kidney. A case report

Parasitol Int. 2013 Oct;62(5):459-60. doi: 10.1016/j.parint.2013.06.007. Epub 2013 Jun 28.

Authors

Ioannis Katafigiotis¹, Evangelos Fragkiadis, Christos Pournaras, Afrodite Nonni, Konstantinos G Stravodimos

Affiliation

¹ 1st University Urology Clinic Laiko Hospital, University of Athens, Athens, Greece. [email protected]

PMID: 23811203
DOI: 10.1016/j.parint.2013.06.007

Abstract

We present a very rare case of a 39 year old patient with Dioctophyma renale depicted as a Bosniak cyst IV of the right kidney who was finally subjected to a robotic assisted radical nephrectomy.

Keywords: Bosniak cyst IV; Dioctophyma renale; Nematodes; Renal cancer; Renal cysts; Renal parasite.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Adult
Animals
Dioctophymatoidea / isolation & purification*
Enoplida Infections / diagnosis*
Enoplida Infections / diagnostic imaging
Enoplida Infections / surgery
Humans
Kidney Diseases / parasitology*
Kidney Diseases / surgery
Male
Radiography