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AMC 2015; 19 (5)

Onchocercosis of the jaw: about a case

Santana ÁJ, León MM, Del Barrio TI, Miranda RMÁ

Language: Spanish
References: 25
Page: 504-511
PDF size: 544.87 Kb.


ABSTRACT

Background: onchocercosis, also know n as Robles’ disease, is a chronic parasitic disease caused by a nematode worm of the genus filaria onchocerca volvulus that is transmitted by black flies of the simuliidae family and the only host of which is man. It is the second infectious cause of blindness in the world.
Objective: to describe the case of a patient carrier of the disease w ho present a nodule in the right ascending ramus of the lower jaw.
Clinical case: an African female patient w ho came to consultation for presenting an increase in volume of the right area of the lower jaw of some months of evolution and a tumor of six centimeters in diameter at the level of the right horizontal angle and ramus of the lower jaw. Microfilariasis was diagnosed in the cytology.
Conclusions: the parasite w as transmitted to the patient like it happens in all the cases, by the sting of a fly of the genus simulium that sucks the blood of the person and lays the larvae causing the disease.


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