Alveolar echinococcosis presenting with simultaneous cerebral and spinal involvement

Alveolar echinococcosis presenting with simultaneous cerebral and spinal involvement.

A 37-year-old Tibetan shepherdess presented with headache and weakness of the lower limbs for 10 months. Examination disclosed a positive straight-leg-raising test. Neuroimaging showed a heterogeneous mass in the left temporal lobe (figure 1) and an intradural mass in the lumbosacral canal with L4 vertebral body destruction (figure 2). Chest and abdominal CT scans were negative. Two operations ...

A Case of Alveolar Echinococcosis Presenting as Cerebral and Spinal Intradural Metastases Serebral ve Spinal Intradural Metastaz Şeklinde Ortaya Çıkan Bir Alveolar Ekinokok Olgusu

Alveolar echinococcosis is a chronic and serious, even lethal, parasitic infection caused by the helminth Echinococcus multilocularis. The involvement of Central Nervous System is reported to be 1-3% in literature. Brain involvement is considered a sign of the terminal phase of alveolar echinococcosis. We here in reported a 67-year-old female who had liver alveolar hydatid disease with brain an...

Alveolar echinococcosis of liver presenting with neurological symptoms due to brain metastases with simultaneous lung metastasis: a case report.

Alveolar echinococcosis (AE) is a chronic and serious, even lethal, parasitic infection caused by the helminth Echinococcus multilocularis (EM). AE is an endemic disease in Turkey and it is particularly common in people living in the eastern Anatolia Region. In addition to various clinical presentations, symptoms which lead to diagnosis, however, are usually associated with the metastatic lesio...

Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma presenting with spinal involvement.

Case report 1 The case concerns a 38 year old woman with a one year history of a low grade non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma stage 4 (disseminated involvement of one or more extralymphatic organs with or without lymph node involvement). At the time of diagnosis, nodal involvement was found in the supraclavicular and axillar regions and in the neck; the abdomen presented marked splenomegaly and sternal pun...

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