Stručni rad

Solitary neurocysticercosis: case report and short review

Irena Gašparić orcid.org/0000-0003-3036-0376 ; Opća županijska bolnica Požega, Odjel za neurologiju
Zdravko Andrić ; Opća županijska bolnica Požega, Odjel za infektologiju
Sandra Gašparić ; Opća županijska bolnica Požega, Odjel za patologiju
Goran Šantak ; Opća županijska bolnica Požega, Odjel za kirurgiju

Sažetak

Solitary neurocysticercosis is a very rare form of CNS disease in Croatia, and it normally occurs as multiple neurocysticercosis. The disease is caused by an infection of the brain tissue with larval stage of Taenia solium and its development within a cyst. Depending on its position within the CNS, it manifests itself through focal or generalised epileptic seizures, sensomotoric deficits, intellectual or psychological dysfunction, sporadic development of hydrocephalus, but it may remain asymptomatic permanently. The paper discusses an 18-year-old patient who suffered her first grand mal epileptic seizure. A neuroradiological assessment detected an oval tumour mass in the left temporal lobe. The tumour mass was extirpated through a neurosurgical procedure, and a pathohistological diagnosis indicates a calcified cysticercus. Following the treatment, the patient's condition is good, with no neurological episodes or parasitic disease dissemination. This paper aims to demonstrate that differential diagnostic thinking is needed to consider the solitary cysticercus granuloma in cases of unclear solitary tumorous masses.

Ključne riječi

solitary cysticercosis; brain; epilepsy; grand mal

Hrčak ID:

122504

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/122504

Datum izdavanja:

2.6.2014.

Podaci na drugim jezicima: hrvatski

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