Case of Lingual Cysticercosis and Review of Literature

A 30-year-old female presented with a painless solitary swelling at right lateral border of tongue of 2-month duration. Fine-needle aspiration cytology was nonconclusive. Excision biopsy was done. Histopathology revealed cysticercosis cellulosae and parasite visualized in the slide with tongue muscl...

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Autores principales: Kinger, Arvind, Kawatra, Mallika, Chaudhary, Tej Singh
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2012
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3425270/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22923927
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-2727.98678
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description A 30-year-old female presented with a painless solitary swelling at right lateral border of tongue of 2-month duration. Fine-needle aspiration cytology was nonconclusive. Excision biopsy was done. Histopathology revealed cysticercosis cellulosae and parasite visualized in the slide with tongue muscles. Lingual cysticercosis is rare and therefore its literature is reviewed and discussed.
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spelling pubmed-34252702012-08-24 Case of Lingual Cysticercosis and Review of Literature Kinger, Arvind Kawatra, Mallika Chaudhary, Tej Singh J Lab Physicians Case Report A 30-year-old female presented with a painless solitary swelling at right lateral border of tongue of 2-month duration. Fine-needle aspiration cytology was nonconclusive. Excision biopsy was done. Histopathology revealed cysticercosis cellulosae and parasite visualized in the slide with tongue muscles. Lingual cysticercosis is rare and therefore its literature is reviewed and discussed. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2012 /pmc/articles/PMC3425270/ /pubmed/22923927 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-2727.98678 Text en Copyright: © Journal of Laboratory Physicians http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3425270/
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