The
hooklets were better visualized in Leishman stained smears than Pap and HE stained smears.
The presence of a laminated membrane with parallel striations, dispersed retractile
hooklets, granular debris, and multinucleated giant cells is consistent with the diagnosis of a HC [17].
The species name saginata is derived from the Latin sania meaning fattened animal (cattle) and the species name solium is Latin for a throne, which describes the ring of
hooklets around the scolex of the worm.
Hemispermatophore inner capsular lobe with "crown" of 15 spines or
hooklets, median lobe with sclerotized apophyses.
Barbules, smaller fibers that branch from the barbs, can sport small
hooklets that lock onto adjacent barbs or barbules.
Each has a tiny head, with suckers - and sometimes with
hooklets - to cling to the bowel wall.
The moderate proportion of nonreproductive homoplasy centers around the loss of hooks and
hooklets. The Eucestoda show very few homoplasious losses.
One scolex with or without
hooklets each from a patient 7 was further processed for molecular studies.
The presence of protoscolex
hooklets, which are used for discrimination, was not described in detail in these reports (33).