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<journal-id>2462-8522</journal-id>
<journal-title><![CDATA[Case reports]]></journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title><![CDATA[Case reports]]></abbrev-journal-title>
<issn>2462-8522</issn>
<publisher>
<publisher-name><![CDATA[Universidad Nacional de Colombia (Sede Bogotá), Facultad de Medicina]]></publisher-name>
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<article-id>S2462-85222018000100046</article-id>
<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.15446/cr.v4n1.65860</article-id>
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<article-title xml:lang="es"><![CDATA[RECURRENT NEUROCYSTICERCOSIS OF THE FRONTAL LOBE. CASE REPORT.]]></article-title>
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<surname><![CDATA[Medina-Ortega]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Ángela]]></given-names>
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<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[López-Valencia]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[David]]></given-names>
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<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Vásquez-Arteaga]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Luis Reinel]]></given-names>
</name>
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<aff id="Af1">
<institution><![CDATA[,Universidad del Cauca Faculty of Health Sciences ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[Popayán ]]></addr-line>
<country>Colombia</country>
</aff>
<aff id="Af2">
<institution><![CDATA[,Universidad del Cauca Faculty of Health Sciences ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[Popayán ]]></addr-line>
<country>Colombia</country>
</aff>
<pub-date pub-type="pub">
<day>00</day>
<month>06</month>
<year>2018</year>
</pub-date>
<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>00</day>
<month>06</month>
<year>2018</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>4</volume>
<numero>1</numero>
<fpage>46</fpage>
<lpage>53</lpage>
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<copyright-year/>
<self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.co/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&amp;pid=S2462-85222018000100046&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.co/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&amp;pid=S2462-85222018000100046&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.co/scielo.php?script=sci_pdf&amp;pid=S2462-85222018000100046&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="es"><p><![CDATA[RESUMEN  Introducción. La neurocisticercosis (NCC) es causada por la ingesta de huevos de la tenia del cerdo (Taenia solium) provenientes de un individuo con teniosis (complejo tenia-siscisticercosis). Esta enfermedad produce la mayor morbimortalidad por sus efectos dañinos sobre el sistema nervioso central. El 80% de los casos pueden ser asintomáticos y el 20% restante presenta manifestaciones clínicas que son inespecíficas.  Presentación del caso. Paciente con cefalea, tendencia dromomaníaca, síndrome de hipertensión intracraneal, deterioro cognitivo y alteración de la marcha. Se realizó una tomografía computarizada que reveló un quiste subcortical frontal derecho y calcificaciones frontoparietales bilaterales. Como diagnóstico principal se sospechó NCC del lóbulo frontal por su cuadro clínico, anamnesis y epidemiología regional.  Discusión. Se sospecha que el paciente cursaba con reinfección por T. solium en el lóbulo frontal derecho por la presencia de edema perilesional, los nódulos calcificados distribuidos aleatoriamente en la imagen y la información suministrada por sus familiares durante la anamnesis. Los signos y síntomas de la NCC dependen de la ubicación, el número, las dimensiones, los estadios del cisticerco (vesicular, coloidal, granular-nodular y nódulo calcificado), el genotipo y el estado inmune del hospedero. El 60-90% de los cisticercos se ubican en el parénquima cerebral, siendo menos frecuentes las ubicaciones ventricular, subaracnoidea, ocular, meníngea y medular.  Conclusiones. Es importante educar a la comunidad, por un lado, sobre el ciclo de vida del parásito T. solium y su epidemiología y, por el otro, acerca de las medidas de prevención y las manifestaciones clínicas de la NCC, esto con el fin de realizar un diagnóstico oportuno y un manejo efectivo.]]></p></abstract>
<abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="en"><p><![CDATA[ABSTRACT  Introduction: Neurocysticercosis (NCC) is the result of ingestion of pork tapeworm eggs (Taenia solium) from an individual with taeniasis (taeniasis/cysticercosis complex). This disease causes the highest helminthic-related morbidity and mortality rates due to its deleterious effects on the central nervous system. 80% of the cases can be asymptomatic and 20% show non-specific clinical manifestations.  Case presentation: The following report presents the case of a patient with headache, dromomania, intracranial hypertension syndrome, and cognition and gait impairment. A brain CT showed a right frontal subcortical cyst and bilateral frontoparietal calcified nodules. Neurocysticercosis of the frontal lobe was suspected as the main diagnosis considering the clinical manifestations, anamnesis and local epidemiology.  Discussion: T. solium reinfection in the right frontal lobe was suspected in this patient due to perilesional edema, calcified nodules randomly distributed on the imaging and the information supplied by his relatives during anamnesis. Symptoms and signs of NCC depend on localization, number, dimensions, cysticercus stage (vesicular, colloidal, granular-nodular and calcified nodule), genotype and immune status of the host. Between 60 and 90% of cysticerci are mainly observed in the brain parenchyma, but other less frequent localizations include ventricles, subarachnoid space, eyes, meninges and spinal cord.  Conclusions: It is important to know and educate the community about the life cycle of parasites, epidemiology, prevention measures and clinical manifestations of neurocysticercosis in order to make a timely diagnosis and administer an effective treatment.]]></p></abstract>
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