Two cystic livers had alveolar cystic disease with desintegrating brood capsules one was probably Echinococcus volgeli and the other was E. granulosis based on the length of the hooklets. One of the remaining livers was from 1200 years ago and had scant calcium in a liver with numerous tunnels some plugged with debri and a few containing the remains of the necrotic parasite Fasciola hepatica. The parasite had spines and a cuticle with an immature ovary seen in some sections, but the feces contained no eggs. Two remaining livers radiographically had areas of calcification with what appeared to be calcified worms. Sections were cut to 5 microns and stained with Von Kossa's calcium stain and H & E.. Remains of calcified Ascaris

Lumbricoides was seen in both livers. The sections showed a calcified ascaris cuticle containing the intestine and ovary with immature eggs.

The parasites had apparently entered the bile duct and died there. One liver with Ascaris was from an eight year old girl who died from liver failure due to hepatitis C which she had probably acquired from her mother at birth, and the parasitic ascaris disease. All of these parasites are seen today in the modern Andean population and are probably due to the similar life style, and food and water source.

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