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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Radiology
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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author Sharma, Aditya
Ansari, Mumtaz A
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Srivastava, Vivek
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description 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.
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spelling pubmed-106262012023-11-07 An Interesting Case of Isolated Cysticercosis of Breast Masquerading as a Breast Lump in a Young Female Sharma, Aditya Ansari, Mumtaz A Pratap, Arvind Srivastava, Vivek Cureus Radiology 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. Cureus 2023-10-05 /pmc/articles/PMC10626201/ /pubmed/37936998 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.46550 Text en Copyright © 2023, Sharma et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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An Interesting Case of Isolated Cysticercosis of Breast Masquerading as a Breast Lump in a Young Female
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title_short An Interesting Case of Isolated Cysticercosis of Breast Masquerading as a Breast Lump in a Young Female
title_sort interesting case of isolated cysticercosis of breast masquerading as a breast lump in a young female
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