1. Neurocysticercosis in a European traveler returning from India primarily suspected as neoplasia.
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Salzer HJ, Hoenigl M, Valentin T, Zollner-Schwetz I, and Krause R
- Subjects
- Albendazole administration & dosage, Albendazole adverse effects, Animals, Anthelmintics administration & dosage, Anthelmintics adverse effects, Dexamethasone administration & dosage, Diagnosis, Differential, Female, Glucocorticoids administration & dosage, Humans, India, Middle Aged, Neuroimaging methods, Praziquantel administration & dosage, Praziquantel adverse effects, Taenia solium drug effects, Taenia solium isolation & purification, Treatment Outcome, Breast Neoplasms diagnosis, Lymph Nodes pathology, Neck, Neurocysticercosis diagnosis, Neurocysticercosis drug therapy, Neurocysticercosis physiopathology, Seizures drug therapy, Seizures etiology, Seizures physiopathology, Travel
- 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., (© 2013 International Society of Travel Medicine.)
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- 2013
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