[Trichinosis]

Abstract

The clinician is able to make the diagnosis of this rare disease only if he bears in mind that any patient with peri-orbital oedema of sudden onset may be suffering from trichinosis, even if the history is not convincing and even if the anademic context does not, or not yet, exist. The gravity of this parasitic infestation in the absence of treatment, and the remarkable effectiveness of the latter, underline the interest of this disease which may occur at any time, as shown by the minor anademic of three cases which we have reported.