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BMJ Case Rep
; 20132013 May 24.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-23709537
ABSTRACT
A previously healthy 27-year-old Nepalese man presented with a history of direct low-impact direct trauma to the left leg. An x-ray was performed in a private hospital and he was referred to our emergency department for the management of a possible foreign body in the left leg. X-ray of the left leg showed a single, small, 'cigar-shaped' calcified lesion in the posterior aspect of the left leg. There was an inconsistency between the injury and x-ray finding. As the patient originated from a region endemic in Taenia solium, a clinical suspicion for cysticercosis was raised. The patient was then sent for a skeletal survey which subsequently confirmed our diagnosis.