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Enhanced abdominal CT findings in a 46-year-old woman with fascioliasis on admission. The white arrow shows multiple nodular cysts with tubular branching.
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Enhanced CT showed multiple microabscesses arranged in a tractlike pattern with ring enhancement in the right lobe of the liver (Fig. 1).
The specific serological examination for fascioliasis using the Ouchterlony double-diffusion test. The black arrow shows a strong precipitin band between the crude antigen of Fasciola sp. and the patient's serum. It means the patient has a large amount of antibody for Fasciola sp. However there is no precipitin band between the crude antigen of Fasciola sp. and the control serum (the white arrow).
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The diagnosis of fascioliasis was confirmed by demonstration of specific antibodies to Fasciola sp. using the Ouchterlony double-diffusion test (Fig. 2).
Follow-up enhanced abdominal CT findings of a 46-year-old woman with fascioliasis after 1 year of treatment. The multiple nodular cysts observed at admission are almost no longer visible (the white arrow).
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Contrast-enhanced CT performed a year later showed almost complete disappearance of the multiple nodular lesions (Fig. 3).