Neurocysticercosis, unusual manifestations

Autor: David López-Valencia, Ángela Patricia Medina-Ortega, Janh Sebastián Saavedra-Torres, Luisa Fernanda Zúñiga-Cerón, Tomás Omar Zamora-Bastidas
Jazyk: English<br />Spanish; Castilian<br />Portuguese
Rok vydání: 2016
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Zdroj: Revista de la Facultad de Medicina, Vol 64, Iss 3, Pp 561-564 (2016)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 0120-0011
2357-3848
DOI: 10.15446/revfacmed.v64n3.53471
Popis: Neurocysticercosis is the most common parasitic infection in the central nervous system. This disease is presented when a person ingests Taenia solium eggs excreted in feces from another individual infected with taeniasis. In 50% of the cases, neurocysticercosis takes place in the brain parenchyma, and its appearance is less frequent in the posterior fossa and the spinal cord. The case of a patient with an atypical location of the parasite at the medulla oblongata, between parenchymal and spinal areas, is presented. The initial symptoms were common but its subsequent manifestations were similar to those of Bruns syndrome. Furthermore, the epidemiological profile of neurocysticercosis in Colombia, its control measures and prevention strategies were reviewed in this study.
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