Abstract
A 62-year-old woman presented with vague abdominal pain and intermittent diarrhoea of a few months’ duration. Laboratory tests revealed leucocyte count 6680mm−3 with slightly increased eosinophils (584mm−3) and haemoglobin 14.0g/dl. She underwent colonoscopy, and when the ascending colon was reached, a long yellowish object was found (Fig. 1). At first, it looked like food or faecal material, however, it continued uninterrupted into the ileum. At closer examination, it was found to be a segmented tapeworm showing contractile motility (Fig.
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