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http://dx.doi.org/10.3340/jkns.2011.49.3.190

Disseminated Cysticercosis  

Park, Soo-Yong (Department of Neurosurgery, Seoul Medical Center)
Kong, Min-Ho (Department of Neurosurgery, Seoul Medical Center)
Kim, Jung-Hee (Department of Neurosurgery, Seoul Medical Center)
Song, Kwan-Young (Department of Neurosurgery, Seoul Medical Center)
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Journal of Korean Neurosurgical Society / v.49, no.3, 2011 , pp. 190-193 More about this Journal
Abstract
Disseminated cysticercosis is a rare form of cysticercosis in which the cysticerci spread out through the whole body. We report the first case of a 39-year-old Mongolian with disseminated cysticercosis. He visited our hospital with generalized tonic-clonic seizure. After extensive investigation from brain computed tomography (CT), spine magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), whole body MRI and pathologic biopsy, he was diagnosed as having cysticercosis involving the brain, subcutaneous tissue, and skeletal muscles through the whole body. We treated him with the albendazole in which case the followed MRI showed that numbers of cystic lesions were copiously decreased. We report an unsual case of disseminated cysticercosis treated with medical therapy.
Keywords
Disseminated cysticercosis; Neurocysticercosis;
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