A Rare Case of Cysticercosis Involving the Whole Spinal Canal

BACKGROUND: Cysticercosis is the commonest parasitic disease to affect the central nervous system (CNS). However, cysticercosis affecting the spine is extremely rare. We reported a rare case of cysticercosis involving the whole spinal canal in China. CASE PRESENTATION: A rare case of cysticercosis i...

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Autores principales: Zheng, Xiaoyan, Wang, Fei, Wang, Lei, Li, Xiaoli, Li, Jingjing, Huang, Minjun, Zou, Yang
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer International Publishing 2021
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8938355/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34851512
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11686-021-00486-1
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author Zheng, Xiaoyan
Wang, Fei
Wang, Lei
Li, Xiaoli
Li, Jingjing
Huang, Minjun
Zou, Yang
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Wang, Fei
Wang, Lei
Li, Xiaoli
Li, Jingjing
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Zou, Yang
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description BACKGROUND: Cysticercosis is the commonest parasitic disease to affect the central nervous system (CNS). However, cysticercosis affecting the spine is extremely rare. We reported a rare case of cysticercosis involving the whole spinal canal in China. CASE PRESENTATION: A rare case of cysticercosis involving the entire spinal cord, in a 52-year-old Chinese man, was detected in 2021. Epidemiological investigation, clinical and etiological examination was performed. CONCLUSION: Since spinal cysticercosis is a rare but potentially life-threatening disease, clinicians should always consider the differential diagnosis of space-occupying lesions.
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spelling pubmed-89383552022-04-07 A Rare Case of Cysticercosis Involving the Whole Spinal Canal Zheng, Xiaoyan Wang, Fei Wang, Lei Li, Xiaoli Li, Jingjing Huang, Minjun Zou, Yang Acta Parasitol Case Report BACKGROUND: Cysticercosis is the commonest parasitic disease to affect the central nervous system (CNS). However, cysticercosis affecting the spine is extremely rare. We reported a rare case of cysticercosis involving the whole spinal canal in China. CASE PRESENTATION: A rare case of cysticercosis involving the entire spinal cord, in a 52-year-old Chinese man, was detected in 2021. Epidemiological investigation, clinical and etiological examination was performed. CONCLUSION: Since spinal cysticercosis is a rare but potentially life-threatening disease, clinicians should always consider the differential diagnosis of space-occupying lesions. Springer International Publishing 2021-12-01 2022 /pmc/articles/PMC8938355/ /pubmed/34851512 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11686-021-00486-1 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) .
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Zheng, Xiaoyan
Wang, Fei
Wang, Lei
Li, Xiaoli
Li, Jingjing
Huang, Minjun
Zou, Yang
A Rare Case of Cysticercosis Involving the Whole Spinal Canal
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title_short A Rare Case of Cysticercosis Involving the Whole Spinal Canal
title_sort rare case of cysticercosis involving the whole spinal canal
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8938355/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34851512
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11686-021-00486-1
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