Solitary cysticercosis of the biceps brachii in a vegetarian: a rare and unusual pseudotumor. uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • We report a 40-year-old man with cysticercosis presenting as a solitary tumor in the biceps brachii muscle. Physical examination revealed an intramuscular mass and magnetic resonance imaging suggested a cyst. The histologic diagnosis was a cysticercus. Such solitary presentation of muscular cysticercosis is extremely rare with only a handful of sporadic reports in the literature.

publication date

  • May 3, 2003

Research

keywords

  • Cysticercosis
  • Diet, Vegetarian
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Muscular Diseases

Identity

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 0043175363

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1007/s00256-003-0638-9

PubMed ID

  • 12730733

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 32

issue

  • 7