Cystic Echinococcosis: A Rare Case of Brain Localization

Although Hydatid disease eradicated in many countries, it is still widespread in communities where agriculture is dominant. Cystic hydatidosis is significant public health problem in the regions with endemic echinococcosis. The hydatid cysts tend to form mostly in the liver or lung. Brain involvemen...

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Published inIranian journal of parasitology Vol. 12; no. 1; pp. 152 - 155
Main Authors Baradan Bagheri, Ali, Zibaei, Mohammad, Tayebi Arasteh, Mehdi
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Iran Tehran University of Medical Sciences 01.01.2017
Subjects
Blood tests
Brain
Case Report
Case reports
Creatinine
Cysts
Disease
Echinococcosis
Headaches
Hospitals
Hydatid cyst
Localization
Magnetic resonance imaging
Medical imaging
Nausea
Parasitology
Serology
Surgery
Tomography
Uric acid
Vomiting
Zoonoses
Middle East
South America
Iran
Brain
Hydatid cyst
Surgery
Echinococcosis
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Summary:Although Hydatid disease eradicated in many countries, it is still widespread in communities where agriculture is dominant. Cystic hydatidosis is significant public health problem in the regions with endemic echinococcosis. The hydatid cysts tend to form mostly in the liver or lung. Brain involvement is very rare. In the present report, we describe magnetic resonance imaging findings in an 18-yr-old male with cerebral echinococcosis, in Shahid Madani Hospital, Karaj, Iran in 2015. The patient, presented with headache, hemiparesis, impairment of speech, vomiting, and nausea. Computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, and surgical exploration proved a cyst in the superior portion of left temporal lobe. Pathological examination showed it to be a solitary primary cerebral hydatid cyst.
ISSN:1735-7020
2008-238X