Acute Cholecystitis Due to Taeniasis: A Case Report of an Unusual Site of Taenia saginata or Taenia asiatica Infection

04 October 2024 : Case report Thailand

Unusual clinical course

Kornnatthanai Namsathimaphorn

^1ABCDEF, Teerada Daroontum

^2CD, Sangob Sanit

^3BCDEF, Worawit Aimim-Arnant^4BD, Komson Wannasai

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DOI: 10.12659/AJCR.944894

Am J Case Rep 2024; 25:e944894

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Table 1. A literature review of gallbladder taeniasis.

Case No.	Year	Age	Sex	Gallbladder pathology	Sign and symptom	Reference
1	1926	74	Male	Distended gallbladder with a thick wall and some adhesion between the gallbladder and omentum	Dull right upper quadrant pain	[]⁹
2	1981	77	Male	Patchy transmural ischemic necrosis and neutrophilic infiltration	Acute abdominal pain with fever	[]²⁴
3	1999	35	Male	Not available	Abdominal pains, nausea, and vomiting.	[]²⁵
4	2008	26	Female	Distended gallbladder with a thickened wall, thickened cystic duct and dilated common bile duct	Right upper quadrant with recurrent vomiting	[]¹²
5	2012	32	Male	Severely inflamed gallbladder with patchy necrosis and a perforation in fundus	Upper abdominal pain, nausea, and bilious vomiting with fever and chills	[]¹¹
6	2012	58	Female	Edematous and hydropic gallbladder	Fever, nausea, vomiting, jaundice and right upper quadrant pain	[]²⁶
7	2019	70	Male	Edematous gallbladder with severe inflammation	Vomiting and colicky abdominal pain	[]⁶
8	2021	45	Female	Not available	Upper abdominal pain	[]¹⁵

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