Live worm found in Australian woman's brain in world first
2023年8月31日小于 1 分钟
In a world first, scientists say that an 8cm worm has been found alive in the brain of an Australian woman. The "string-like structure" was pulled from the patient's damaged frontal
lobe
tissue
during surgery
in Canberra last year. The red parasite
could have been there for up to two months. "Everyone in that operating theatre
got the shock of their life when [the surgeon
] took some forceps
to pick up an abnormality
and the abnormality turned out to be a wriggling
, live 8cm light red worm," said Sanjaya Senanayake, an infectious
diseases doctor at Canberra Hospital.
tips
frontal lobe 额叶
lobe 叶;脑叶
tissue 棉织物;组织
surgery 外科手术
parasite 寄生虫
theatre 戏院
operating theatre 手术台
surgeon 外科医生
forceps 镊子
wriggle 蠕动
infection 传染