• World Neurosurg · Jun 2017

    Case Reports

    Ultrasound-assisted neuronavigation-guided removal of a live worm in cerebral sparganosis.

    • Sunday Nkwerem, Tetsuya Goto, Toshihiro Ogiwara, Yasunaga Yamamoto, Kazuhiro Hongo, and Samuel Ohaegbulam.
    • Department of Neurosurgery, Shinshu University School of Medicine, Matsumoto, Japan; Department of Neurosurgery, Memfys Hospital for Neurosurgery, Enugu, Nigeria.
    • World Neurosurg. 2017 Jun 1; 102: 696.e13-696.e16.

    BackgroundCerebral sparganosis is a rare zoonotic infestation that often mimics glioma and metastatic tumors.Case DescriptionA 71-year-old man presented with disturbing dysarthria. Initial neuroimages were suggestive of glioma. However, the histology was suggestive of inflammatory lesion. Follow-up neuroimages and serology were suggestive of sparganosis. He subsequently had craniotomy with ultrasound-guided aspiration of a live worm. Saline-soaked Surgicel was used to provide an acoustic window.ConclusionsUltrasonography was helpful in the intraoperative localization of the worm and is recommended when intraoperative magnetic resonance is not readily available.Copyright © 2017 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

      Pubmed     Full text   Copy Citation     Plaintext  

      Add institutional full text...

    Notes

     
    Knowledge, pearl, summary or comment to share?
    300 characters remaining
    help        
    You can also include formatting, links, images and footnotes in your notes
    • Simple formatting can be added to notes, such as *italics*, _underline_ or **bold**.
    • Superscript can be denoted by <sup>text</sup> and subscript <sub>text</sub>.
    • Numbered or bulleted lists can be created using either numbered lines 1. 2. 3., hyphens - or asterisks *.
    • Links can be included with: [my link to pubmed](http://pubmed.com)
    • Images can be included with: ![alt text](https://bestmedicaljournal.com/study_graph.jpg "Image Title Text")
    • For footnotes use [^1](This is a footnote.) inline.
    • Or use an inline reference [^1] to refer to a longer footnote elseweher in the document [^1]: This is a long footnote..

    hide…