Detection of an Aberrant Motile Larval Form in the Brain of a Patient with Neurocysticercosis | Zendy

M. E. Hellard | Zendy; A. Street | Zendy; P. D. R. Johnson | Zendy; Emil A. Popovic | Zendy; Grayton Brown | Zendy

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Detection of an Aberrant Motile Larval Form in the Brain of a Patient with Neurocysticercosis

Author(s) -

M. E. Hellard,

A. Street,

P. D. R. Johnson,

Emil A. Popovic,

Grayton Brown

Publication year - 1998

Publication title -

clinical infectious diseases

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.44

H-Index - 336

eISSN - 1537-6591

pISSN - 1058-4838

DOI - 10.1086/514665

Subject(s) - neurocysticercosis , taenia solium , parenchyma , pathology , cyst , medicine , lumen (anatomy) , cysticercosis , central nervous system , anatomy , helminthiasis , parasite hosting , parasitic infection , biology , immunology , surgery , world wide web , computer science

Neurocysticercosis is the most common parasitic infection of the central nervous system in humans. The adult pork tape worm, Taenia solium, resides in the lumen of the intestine, and the only structural element of an adult worm usually found within a tissue cyst in the brain or in muscle is a single invaginated scolex. We report a highly unusual, and perhaps unique, occurrence of neurocysticercosis in which an aberrant worm-like larval form, 12.5 cm in length, was found within a cyst in brain parenchyma.

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