Cysticercosis Cellulosae Cutis: A Forgotten Entity

Cysticercosis cellulosa cutis is caused by larval stage of Taenia solium. It most commonly affects central nervous system, muscle, and subcutaneous tissue. Here, we report a case of 70-year-old female who was misdiagnosed on ultrasound as abscess and was treated with no improvement. Later, she was d...

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Autores principales: Neethu, Kanagala Chowdary, Jain, Akshay, Haritha, S.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2019
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6743388/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31544080
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/idoj.IDOJ_469_18
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description Cysticercosis cellulosa cutis is caused by larval stage of Taenia solium. It most commonly affects central nervous system, muscle, and subcutaneous tissue. Here, we report a case of 70-year-old female who was misdiagnosed on ultrasound as abscess and was treated with no improvement. Later, she was diagnosed on FNAC as cutaneous cysticercosis. Hence, we report this case because of its uncommon clinical presentation and diagnostic difficulty.
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spelling pubmed-67433882019-09-20 Cysticercosis Cellulosae Cutis: A Forgotten Entity Neethu, Kanagala Chowdary Jain, Akshay Haritha, S. Indian Dermatol Online J Case Report Cysticercosis cellulosa cutis is caused by larval stage of Taenia solium. It most commonly affects central nervous system, muscle, and subcutaneous tissue. Here, we report a case of 70-year-old female who was misdiagnosed on ultrasound as abscess and was treated with no improvement. Later, she was diagnosed on FNAC as cutaneous cysticercosis. Hence, we report this case because of its uncommon clinical presentation and diagnostic difficulty. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2019-08-28 /pmc/articles/PMC6743388/ /pubmed/31544080 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/idoj.IDOJ_469_18 Text en Copyright: © 2019 Indian Dermatology Online Journal http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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