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Acta Medica Medianae
Vol. 40
No 1, 2001
UDK 61
YU ISSN 0365-4478

 




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Anđelka SVETOZAREVIĆ-NIKOLIĆ
Institute for Health Protection, Niš

 

DIAGNOSIS AND PATHOLOGICAL IMPORTANCE OF THE DIOCTOPHYMA RENALE

 

Anđelka SVETOZAREVIĆ-NIKOLIĆ, Aleksandar TASIĆ, Čedo KUTLEŠIĆ, Nataša MILADINOVIĆ-TASIĆ, Gordana TASIĆ, Miloš STOJANOVIĆ, Predrag STOJANOVIĆ and Suzana TASIĆ
 

Institute for Health Protection, Niš

 

The aim of the paper is to present an exceptionally rare man's helminth caused by the Dioctophyma renale (DR). This sort is primarily a dog's parasite while in some special cases it can be a parasite in man's organism with the most frequent location in the kidney pelvis. The patient appears to have been eaten insufficiently roasted fish. The disease has manifested it self in various symptoms (high body temperature, pains in the back, hematuria and dysuria). The diagnosis was made by histological and parasilological examination.

 

Key words: Dioctophyma renale, kidney pelvis