SUBCUTANEOUS CYSTICERCOSIS OF THE TONGUE MIMICKING A TUMOR
| Autor: | Délio Delmaestro, Douglas Puppin, Brigitta Maria Cavegn |
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| Rok vydání: | 1993 |
| Předmět: |
Pathology
medicine.medical_specialty Dermatology Tongue Diseases Diagnosis Differential Tongue parasitic diseases Biopsy Taenia solium Animals Humans Medicine Cyst Child Granular cell tumor Taenia medicine.diagnostic_test Cysticercosis business.industry Nodule (medicine) Cysticercus Lipoma medicine.disease Tongue Neoplasms medicine.drug_formulation_ingredient medicine.anatomical_structure Female medicine.symptom business |
| Zdroj: | International Journal of Dermatology. 32:818-819 |
| ISSN: | 1365-4632 0011-9059 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/j.1365-4362.1993.tb02772.x |
| Popis: | A 12-year-old Brazilian girl was seen in our department with a single asymptomatic nodule on the dorsum of the tongue (Fig. 1). The nodule had been present for approxi-mately 4 years. It measured 1–2 cm in diameter, was firm, flesh-colored, nontender, nonpulsatile, and slightly mobile. The patient acknowledged that she had been treated for tapeworms 3 years previously, but she could not specify the treatment. Physical examination was otherwise unre-markable. A clinical diagnosis of lipoma, cyst, or granular cell tumor was suspected. Biopsy of the nodule was per-formed. Histopathologic examination revealed a cysticercus of Taenia solium in a “bladder cyst” (Fig. 2) surrounded by a discrete inflammatory reaction. Laboratory tests included stool examination that was negative for ova and parasites and a normal complete blood cell count. Chest roentgeno-gram, EEG, ECG, and brain, liver, spleen, and bone scans were normal. The patient was seen 2 years later and had no evidence of cysticercosis. |
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