Cysticercosis report of three cases form Qatar

ABSTRACT

This article reports three cases of cysticercosis seen in the State of Qatar between 1983 to 1996. The lesion in case 1 was present in the left side of the neck in a 24-year-old Indian woman, simulating branchial cleft cyst; In case 2 the cyst had involved soft tissue and muscle of the chest wall in a 17-year- old Qatari girl, presenting as left breast mass, presumed to be a fibradenoma; Case 3 was a 24-year- old Bangladeshi man who presented with discharge from the left eye which on ophthalmologic examination was found to be from a conjunctival cyst. He had a history of headache and double vision. A brief account of the geography, life cycle, clinical features, pathology, diagnosis and treatment of cysticercosis is presented