BACKGROUND Spinal infection with sparganosis is rarely seen,and multiple spinal infections with sparganosis in the thoracic spine have not been reported.CASE SUMMARY In this case report,a 56-year old male patient suff...
grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(81372707 to Y.Gong);the Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality(16140903000 to Y.Gong and 15140902200 to H.L.Tang).
Human sparganosis is a rare disease often affecting muscle, subcutaneous tissue and other locations, but sparganosis invading the brain is rather rare. Cerebral sparganosis has no specific symptoms which makes the dia...
This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(grant No.81172612 and 81501768).
A 29-year-old farmer from central China was sent into the Emergency Department of the Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University.He had a 15-day history of persistent high fever,abdominal distention and pain.The pati...
A 60-year-old man was admitted due to rectosigmoid colon cancer, and a hepatic mass was incidentally found during the staging work-up. The mass appeared cystic with a thick wall and contained multiple bizarre cord-lik...
Human sparganosis is a rare parasitic disease caused by infection with the tapeworm Sparganum, the migrating plerocercoid(second stage) larva of Spirometra species. Sparganosis usually involves subcutaneous tissues an...
We report a case of subcutaneous larva migrans caused by a tape worm (sparganum), a rare and under-recognized food-borne parasitic zoonosis, in Nan Province, Northern Thailand. An obese 56-year-old female presented a ...
Pulmonary sparganosis mansoni is rare in humans and bronchial sparganosis mansoni has not been reported. We reported a patient with a soft-tissue mass in the right hilum area on a chest computed tomography (CT) scan...
Human cerebral sparganosis is a rare but neglected parasitic disease. We present details of the diagnosis of two cases of migrating cerebral sparganosis from China based on computed tomography and magnetic resonance i...