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An Interesting Case of Isolated Cysticercosis of Breast Masquerading as a Breast Lump in a Young Female

Human cysticercosis can affect any tissue or organ in the body and may be asymptomatic or manifest clinical signs and symptoms depending on the area of the body where cysticerci are found. However, at the same time, the involvement of the breast by cysticercosis is an extremely rare phenomenon, with...

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Autores principales: Sharma, Aditya, Ansari, Mumtaz A, Pratap, Arvind, Srivastava, Vivek
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10626201/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37936998
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.46550
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Sumario:Human cysticercosis can affect any tissue or organ in the body and may be asymptomatic or manifest clinical signs and symptoms depending on the area of the body where cysticerci are found. However, at the same time, the involvement of the breast by cysticercosis is an extremely rare phenomenon, with very few case reports published before. In this report, we present the case of a 26-year-old married woman who came with a history of painless swelling in the left breast.