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Intramedullary Spinal Cysticercosis: A Case Report and Review of Literature

To report a case of spinal intramedullary cysticercosis in thoracic spine. A 47-year old man living in Korea referred to our hospital with both feet tingling sensation for about a year. Laboratory evaluations, including serologic tests were not helpful. Magnetic resonance imaging revealed a 1.7 cm i...

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Autores principales: Kim, Moinay, Rhim, Seung Chul, Khang, Shin-Kwang
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Korean Spinal Neurosurgery Society 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4124922/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25110489
http://dx.doi.org/10.14245/kjs.2014.11.2.81
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description To report a case of spinal intramedullary cysticercosis in thoracic spine. A 47-year old man living in Korea referred to our hospital with both feet tingling sensation for about a year. Laboratory evaluations, including serologic tests were not helpful. Magnetic resonance imaging revealed a 1.7 cm intramedullary mass at T10-11 level, which believed to be a tumor instead, rather than a cysticercosis preoperatively. Successful operation was done with a histopathological result confirmed it as cysticercosis. Even though the prevalence of intramedullary spinal cysticercosis is extremely rare, and radiologic exams mimic other common tumors like ependymoma or astrocytoma, the disease should be considered as differential diagnosis.
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spelling pubmed-41249222014-08-10 Intramedullary Spinal Cysticercosis: A Case Report and Review of Literature Kim, Moinay Rhim, Seung Chul Khang, Shin-Kwang Korean J Spine Case Report To report a case of spinal intramedullary cysticercosis in thoracic spine. A 47-year old man living in Korea referred to our hospital with both feet tingling sensation for about a year. Laboratory evaluations, including serologic tests were not helpful. Magnetic resonance imaging revealed a 1.7 cm intramedullary mass at T10-11 level, which believed to be a tumor instead, rather than a cysticercosis preoperatively. Successful operation was done with a histopathological result confirmed it as cysticercosis. Even though the prevalence of intramedullary spinal cysticercosis is extremely rare, and radiologic exams mimic other common tumors like ependymoma or astrocytoma, the disease should be considered as differential diagnosis. The Korean Spinal Neurosurgery Society 2014-06 2014-06-30 /pmc/articles/PMC4124922/ /pubmed/25110489 http://dx.doi.org/10.14245/kjs.2014.11.2.81 Text en Copyright © 2014 The Korean Spinal Neurosurgery Society http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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