Disseminated cysticercosis: a case report and review of the literature

INTRODUCTION: Cysticercosis is a common tropical disease. One of the uncommon manifestations of cysticercosis is its disseminated form. CASE PRESENTATION: We report an immunocompetent patient with disseminated cysticercosis, who had involvement of the brain, subcutaneous tissues, skeletal muscles, r...

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Autores principales: Bhalla, Ashish, Sood, Ashwani, Sachdev, Atul, Varma, Vandna
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2386798/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18447915
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-2-137
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Sood, Ashwani
Sachdev, Atul
Varma, Vandna
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description INTRODUCTION: Cysticercosis is a common tropical disease. One of the uncommon manifestations of cysticercosis is its disseminated form. CASE PRESENTATION: We report an immunocompetent patient with disseminated cysticercosis, who had involvement of the brain, subcutaneous tissues, skeletal muscles, right orbit and thyroid gland. In addition, this patient developed a serum sickness which responded to therapy. CONCLUSION: Wide spread dissemination is a rare complication of cysticercosis. A planned approach to therapy is required.
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spelling pubmed-23867982008-05-17 Disseminated cysticercosis: a case report and review of the literature Bhalla, Ashish Sood, Ashwani Sachdev, Atul Varma, Vandna J Med Case Reports Case Report INTRODUCTION: Cysticercosis is a common tropical disease. One of the uncommon manifestations of cysticercosis is its disseminated form. CASE PRESENTATION: We report an immunocompetent patient with disseminated cysticercosis, who had involvement of the brain, subcutaneous tissues, skeletal muscles, right orbit and thyroid gland. In addition, this patient developed a serum sickness which responded to therapy. CONCLUSION: Wide spread dissemination is a rare complication of cysticercosis. A planned approach to therapy is required. BioMed Central 2008-04-30 /pmc/articles/PMC2386798/ /pubmed/18447915 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-2-137 Text en Copyright © 2008 Bhalla et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_short Disseminated cysticercosis: a case report and review of the literature
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2386798/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18447915
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-2-137
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