Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu khoa học ngành y học tạp chí Medical Sciences dành cho các bạn sinh viên ngành y tham khảo đề tài: Spinal Intramedullary Cysticercosis: A Case Report and Literature Review. | Int. J. Med. Sci. 2011 8 420 IVYSPKING . . . 1 International Journal of Medical Sciences 2011 8 5 420-423 Case Report Spinal Intramedullary Cysticercosis A Case Report and Literature Review Bin Qi Pengfei Ge Hongfa Yang Chunhua Bi Yiping Li x Department of Neurosurgery The First Hospital of Jilin University Changchun 130021 China H Corresponding author Yiping Li e-mail lyp0518@ Received Accepted Published Abstract Neurocysticercosis involvement of the central nervous system by taenia solium is one of the most common parasitic diseases of the CNS. However spinal involvement by neurocysticercosis is uncommon. Here we reported a 40-year-old woman with intramedullary cysticercosis in the thoracic spinal cord. MRI revealed two well-defined round intramedullary lesions at T4 and T5 vertebral levels which were homogeneously hypointense on T1WI and hyperintense on T2WI with peripheral edema. Since the patient had progressive neurological deficits surgery was performed to decompress the spinal cord. Histopathology examination of the removed lesion proved it was intramedullary cysticercosis. In this report we also discussed the principles of diagnosis and treatment of intramedullary cysticercosis in combination of literature review. Key words intramedullary cysticercosis spinal cord Introduction Neurocysticercosis caused by Taenia solium is the most common parasitic infection affecting the central nervous system. However the spinal cysticercosis is rare representing to of all cases of neurocysticercosis19 20. According to the cysticercus location in spine Cysticercosis has been classified anatomically as extraspinal vertebral or intraspinal epidural subdural arachnoid or intramedullary of which the intramedullary type is quite rare and only fifty-three cases have been reported until 20101-3 8 13. Here we reported a case of intramedullary cysticercosis at T4 and T5 vertebral level and discussed its diagnosis and treatment with .
