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A Microbial Old Friend with a New Face: A Rare Case of Pyrexia of Unknown Origin and Leukemoid Reaction
We present a case of a young male, who presented to us with high-grade fever for more than four weeks, refractory seizures, multiple subcutaneous palpable lumps, and evidence of leukocytosis with predominant left shift on the peripheral smear. The classic “starry-sky” appearance on imaging, generali...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5572196/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28878524 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jgid.jgid_166_16 |
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author | Mirgh, Sumeet P Shah, Virti D Sorabjee, Jehangir S |
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description | We present a case of a young male, who presented to us with high-grade fever for more than four weeks, refractory seizures, multiple subcutaneous palpable lumps, and evidence of leukocytosis with predominant left shift on the peripheral smear. The classic “starry-sky” appearance on imaging, generalized muscular uptake on positron emission tomography-computerized tomography scan, and positive serology led to a diagnosis of disseminated cysticercosis. He responded to oral steroids. To the best of our knowledge, disseminated cysticercosis presenting as pyrexia of unknown origin and with a leukemoid reaction has never been reported in literature. |
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spelling | pubmed-55721962017-09-06 A Microbial Old Friend with a New Face: A Rare Case of Pyrexia of Unknown Origin and Leukemoid Reaction Mirgh, Sumeet P Shah, Virti D Sorabjee, Jehangir S J Glob Infect Dis Case Report We present a case of a young male, who presented to us with high-grade fever for more than four weeks, refractory seizures, multiple subcutaneous palpable lumps, and evidence of leukocytosis with predominant left shift on the peripheral smear. The classic “starry-sky” appearance on imaging, generalized muscular uptake on positron emission tomography-computerized tomography scan, and positive serology led to a diagnosis of disseminated cysticercosis. He responded to oral steroids. To the best of our knowledge, disseminated cysticercosis presenting as pyrexia of unknown origin and with a leukemoid reaction has never been reported in literature. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017 /pmc/articles/PMC5572196/ /pubmed/28878524 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jgid.jgid_166_16 Text en Copyright: © 2017 Journal of Global Infectious Diseases 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-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms. |
spellingShingle | Case Report Mirgh, Sumeet P Shah, Virti D Sorabjee, Jehangir S A Microbial Old Friend with a New Face: A Rare Case of Pyrexia of Unknown Origin and Leukemoid Reaction |
title | A Microbial Old Friend with a New Face: A Rare Case of Pyrexia of Unknown Origin and Leukemoid Reaction |
title_full | A Microbial Old Friend with a New Face: A Rare Case of Pyrexia of Unknown Origin and Leukemoid Reaction |
title_fullStr | A Microbial Old Friend with a New Face: A Rare Case of Pyrexia of Unknown Origin and Leukemoid Reaction |
title_full_unstemmed | A Microbial Old Friend with a New Face: A Rare Case of Pyrexia of Unknown Origin and Leukemoid Reaction |
title_short | A Microbial Old Friend with a New Face: A Rare Case of Pyrexia of Unknown Origin and Leukemoid Reaction |
title_sort | microbial old friend with a new face: a rare case of pyrexia of unknown origin and leukemoid reaction |
topic | Case Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5572196/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28878524 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jgid.jgid_166_16 |
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