[Eosinophilic granulomatous hepatitis. Apropos of a case of toxocariasis].

Abstract

The author reports an anatomoclinical observation of eosinophilic granulomatous hepatitis due to toxocariasis. The problems of the histologic differential diagnosis are discussed. Human cases of parasitic infestation by Toxacara canis--larva migrans syndrome--are quite uncommon (1, 2). In the acute stage the hepatic lesion most often consists in eosinophilic granulomatous hepatitis. The chance finding of an eosinophilic granuloma in a puncture biopsy of the liver may rise problems as concerns the histological differential diagnosis, especially when there is no clinical evidence of a parasitosis and when no parasite is found in the biospy specimen.