Case Report

Visceral Larva Migrans

Authors: JOHN H. DENT M.D.

Abstract

This is a syndrome probably unfamiliar to many physicians. Chronic eosinophilia in childhood should raise this condition as a possibility in diagnosis. So-called tumors of the retina accompanied by eosinophilia probably represented a larval granuloma, and recognition of its true nature may avoid the loss of an eye. The visceral involvement is probably not rare in childhood, especially in the child who has pica.

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