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 tungiasis (Tunga penetrans)

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Von Recklinghausen's Syndrome - Neurofibromatosis Type 1 (NF1) 
Hereditary multiple neurofibromas. 
Autosomal dominant with high rate
with high rate of penetrance
Parks Classification of Perianal Fistulas
 • Superificial (Simple) - Superficial fistula w/o crossing any sphincter or
Fistula tract penetrates ... puborectalis → penetrates
Pathology - Castleman disease. 

Mediastinal mass in a younger woman.

Histologic Features of Castleman disease, hyaline vascular
germinal centers with penetrati
Myocysticercosis on Leg X-Ray

Cysticercus larva in the muscles appear like rice grain calcifications.

Consumption of contaminated food
the GIT which penetrate
Autosomal Dominant Inheritance
 - Most common mode of Mendelian inheritance 
 - Affected individual carries the
expression, non-penetrance
Cysticercosis - Taenia solium Life Cycle
1) Eggs or gravid proglottids in feces and passed into environment.
2)
Oncospheres hatch, penetrate ... Oncospheres hatch, penetrate
Schistosoma Life Cycle - Schistosomiasis
1) Eggs shed from infected human: in feces, in urine
2) Eggs hatch
3) Miracidia penetrate ... 6) Cercariae penetrate
Echinococcus Life Cycle
1) Adult in small intestine eggs
2) Embryonated egg in feces
3) Oncosphere hatches; penetrates intestinal
Oncosphere hatches; penetrates
Strongyloides Stercoralis Lifecycle
Free-Living Cycle:
1) Rhabditiform larvae in the intestine are excreted in stool. 
2) Development into
filariform larvae penetrate ... become filariform, penetrate