A case report of pulmonary and muscular cysticercosis

Sanjay Fotedar; Vaibhav Gaur; Swati Lakra; Vinay Malik

doi:10.18203/2320-6012.ijrms20230596

Authors

Sanjay Fotedar Department of Medicine, PGIMS, Rohtak, Haryana, India
Vaibhav Gaur Department of Medicine, PGIMS, Rohtak, Haryana, India
Swati Lakra Department of Medicine, Holy Heart Hospital, Rohtak, Haryana, India
Vinay Malik Department of Radiology, Health Map, PGIMS, Rohtak, Haryana, India

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18203/2320-6012.ijrms20230596

Keywords:

Cysticercosis, Pulmonary, Muscular, Albendazole, Steroids, CT chest

Abstract

Pulmonary cysticercosis is extremely rare manifestation of a rather common disease which is distributed worldwide. Most common sites for the growth of cysticercosis are muscle and brain followed by eye. Pulmonary involvement in cysticercosis is very rare and if at all present, then ill-defined nodular shadows distributed throughout the lung is the usual radiological presentation which might be attributed to other diseases also. No case of cysticercosis presenting as lung parenchymal along with muscular involvement without cerebral involvement has been reported so far in literature. We came across a rarest presentation of cysticercosis as pulmonary involvement. After nullifying all the differential diagnosis of parenchymal nodular lesions as seen on CT chest and with clinical suspicion, a diagnosis of pulmonary cysticercosis was made as enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) titres for cysticercosis was significantly raised. Case was successfully treated with albendazole (15 mg/kg) with steroid cover with resolution of lesions as well.

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