Isolated Myocysticercosis.

نویسندگان

  • Beuy Joob
  • Viroj Wiwanitkit
چکیده

Isolated Myocysticercosis Beuy Joob1, Viroj Wiwanitkit2 1Sanitation, Medical Academic Center, Bangkok Thailand; 2Visiting Professor, Hainan Medical University, China Sir D Editor, the article on “isolated m y o c y s t i c e r c o s i s ” i s v e r y interesting.1 Vignesh et al. noted that “most muscular cysticercosis are almost always associated with central nervous system involvement or with multiple intramuscular cysts or both.”1 Indeed, the isolated myocysticercosis is an uncommon type of cysticercosis2 and it can exist at any muscle including to small muscles such as ocular muscle.3 In the present case report, the assumption is made that there is no existence of other site of cysticercosis in the patient. The possibility of the existence of asymptomatic lesion in deep internal organ, soft tissue or very small organ (such as small muscle) cannot be ruled out.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • The Journal of the Association of Physicians of India

دوره 65 3  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2017