Misdiagnosed behavior change revealing fatal primitive intra-cerebral echinococcosis  

作　　者：Salem Bouomrani Karama Regaieg Nesrine Belgacem Oussema Souissi Mouna Guermazi Sami Krimi 

机构地区：[1]Department of Internal medicine, Military Hospital of Gabes, Gabes 6000, Tunisia [2]Sfax Faculty of Medicine, University of Sfax, Sfax 3029, Tunisia [3]Department of Forensic Medicine, Gabes Regional Hospital, Gabes 6000, Tunisia

出　　处：《Advances in Health and Behavior》2019年第1期62-65,共4页健康与行为进展（英文）

摘　　要：Central nervous system involvement in hydatidosis is rare compared to other somatic localizations: 1-5%. It is schematically divided into two major types: cerebral involvement and spinal involvement. The brain is a rare localization of hydatid cyst accounting for only 2% of all hydatid disease. The psychiatric manifestations revealing cerebral hydatidosis remain exceptional and often unrecognized and neglected by practitioners despite their potential severity. We report two original observations of fatal cerebral hydatidosis revealed by behavior change (psychomotor agitation, aggressiveness, persecutory delusion, and auditory and visual hallucinations) insufficiently explored in two women aged 45 and 17. The possibility of cerebral hydatidosis must always be evoked in front of any psychiatric symptomatology that remains unexplained in endemic areas for echinococcosis.

关 键 词：behavior change PSYCHIATRIC MANIFESTATIONS HYDATID cyst brain HYDATIDOSIS intra-cerebral ECHINOCOCCOSIS 

分 类 号：R[医药卫生]