Urgent Bite 242 - Thinking about worms and abdominal pain

Pinworms are often asymptomatic, or cause mild pruritus ani, but do they cause abdominal pain?

 

Check out the pages mentioned.  

Demnet page on pinworms by Daniel Wong

 

Enterobius vermicularis: a possible cause of symptoms resembling appendicitis Dahlstrom, J.Macarthur, E. et al. Pathology, Volume 25, 5 Link to paper

 

Panidis S, Paramythiotis D, Panagiotou D, Batsis G, Salonikidis S, Kaloutsi V, Michalopoulos A. Acute appendicitis secondary to Enterobius vermicularis infection in a middle-aged man: a case report. J Med Case Rep. 2011 Nov 30;5:559. doi: 10.1186/1752-1947-5-559. PMID: 22128765; PMCID: PMC3245485. Link to paper

 

Tariq S. Enterobiasis: threadworm infection presenting as acute appendicitis in a 13-year-old girl. BMJ Case Rep. 2015 Jan 14;2015:bcr2014208543. doi: 10.1136/bcr-2014-208543. PMID: 25589531; PMCID: PMC4307057. Link to paper

 

Hammood ZD, Salih AM, Mohammed SH, Kakamad FH, Salih KM, Omar DA, Hassan MN, Sidiq SH, Mustafa MQ, Habibullah IJ, Usf DC, Al Obaidi AE. Enterobius vermicularis causing acute appendicitis, a case report with literature review. Int J Surg Case Rep. 2019;63:153-156. doi: 10.1016/j.ijscr.2019.09.025. Epub 2019 Sep 25. PMID: 31586892; PMCID: PMC6796714. Link to paper

 

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