Neurocysticercosis in a European traveler returning from India primarily suspected as neoplasia

  • Helmut J F Salzer
  • Martin Hoenigl
  • Thomas Valentin
  • Ines Zollner-Schwetz
  • Robert Krause

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Abstract

A woman with a history of cured breast cancer and multiple trips to India presented with a cervical nodule. Primarily suspected as metastasis of breast cancer, histopathology, however, showed the scolex of Taenia solium. Although the patient was neurologically asymptomatic neuroimaging showed multiple cysts. During treatment with praziquantel, albendazole, and dexamethason the patient developed seizures.

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OriginalspracheEnglisch
ISSN1195-1982
DOIs
StatusVeröffentlicht - 2013
PubMed 23992578