Acute dorsal myelopathy as an atypical presentation of spinal neurocysticercosis

Canales D.; Araujo-Chumacero M.M.; Vences M.A.; Latorre A. · Revista Chilena de Infectologia (2023) · DOI: 10.4067/s0716-10182023000100066

Resumen

Spinal neurocysticercosis is an infectious and rare disease. Its presentation can be extraspinal or intraspinal and most cases are of subacute or chronic evolution. We report the case of a 55-year-old female patient from Lima, Peru with a 2-day history of acute parapa-resis secondary to dorsal myelopathy due to cystic lesions of spinal cysticercosis. The patient received medical and surgical treatment with a favorable clinical and imaging evolution. In our epidemiological context, it is important to consider a spinal cysticercosis as a differen-tial diagnosis when faced with a clinical picture of acute myelopathy, since the appropriate diagnostic approach and timely treatment of this rare entity can improve the prognosis of patients.

Instituciones: Universidad Científica del Sur