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An 81-year-old man presented with 3 months of weight loss, poor oral intake and abdominal discomfort. Endoscopy showed a small suspicious lesion in the gastric antrum. Biopsy found gastric adenocarcinoma as well as Strongyloides parasites in the gastric tissue.
One month later, he underwent subtotal gastrectomy with lymph-node dissection. Pathology showed moderately differentiated adenocarcinoma confined to the mucosa, confined to the mucosa with no lymph-node metastasis, together with a separate tubular adenoma. Strongyloides eggs, larvae and adult worms were also found in gastric and duodenal tissue.
After surgery, persistent fever developed. He received 7 days of albendazole for the parasitic infection, after which the fever improved and inflammatory markers returned to normal. Follow-up through 4 months after surgery showed no observable abnormalities.
This is a lay summary of an account first published by PMC / PubMed Central. Read the original in full
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