Cysticercosis of Soleus muscle presenting as isolated calf pain

Mishra, Pallav; Pandey, Divya; Tripathi, Brajendra Nath

doi:10.1016/j.jcot.2014.11.002

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“…Only a few case reports of isolated muscular cysticercosis have been reported in the English literature. [8][9][10][11][12][13] Probably it is the first case report of isolated brachialis muscle involvement by cysticercosis. Muscular cysticercosis often goes unnoticed because it remains asymptomatic in most individuals.…”

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A rare case of isolated cysticercosis of brachialis muscle

2017

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Isolated muscular cysticercosis is very rare and poses a diagnostic challenge to treating doctor. It often presents as a case of muscle strain and you have to think out of the box to reach the diagnosis. We are presenting a case of isolated involvement of the brachialis muscle in a young male, who presented to us with complaints of pain of the lower arm. When patient could not get relief with conservative treatment a MRI of the arm was ordered which revealed the diagnosis of cysticercosis of brachialis muscle. In patients from endemic zone, who present with intractable muscular pain and not responding to conservative treatment, diagnosis of muscular cysticercosis should be kept in mind.

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A rare case of isolated cysticercosis of brachialis muscle

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“…Cysticercosis is a parasitic infection that is caused by Taenia solium and is common in developing countries, where persons are infected by eating improperly cooked pork (45,46). The central nervous system is the most common site of symptomatic disease; when cysticercosis affects muscle, there is typically concomitant neural involvement (45,46). Muscle involvement by cysticercosis can be asymptomatic or manifest as myalgia, a solitary mass, or, most commonly, multiple intramuscular cysts (46) (Fig 14).…”

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“…The central nervous system is the most common site of symptomatic disease; when cysticercosis affects muscle, there is typically concomitant neural involvement (45,46). Muscle involvement by cysticercosis can be asymptomatic or manifest as myalgia, a solitary mass, or, most commonly, multiple intramuscular cysts (46) (Fig 14). The appearance of intramuscular lesions varies as the disease progresses through its vesicular, colloid, granular-nodular, and calcific stages (47).…”

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“…The appearance of intramuscular lesions varies as the disease progresses through its vesicular, colloid, granular-nodular, and calcific stages (47). The early stages, before calcification, are nonspecific, particularly when there is a solitary lesion (45,46). The late calcific stage is distinctive, showing multiple small ovoid calcifications oriented parallel to the muscle fibers.…”

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MR Imaging of Atraumatic Muscle Disorders

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Atraumatic disorders of skeletal muscles include congenital variants; inherited myopathies; acquired inflammatory, infectious, or ischemic disorders; neoplastic diseases; and conditions leading to muscle atrophy. These have overlapping appearances at magnetic resonance (MR) imaging and are challenging for the radiologist to differentiate. The authors organize muscle disorders into four MR imaging patterns: (a) abnormal anatomy with normal signal intensity, (b) edema/inflammation, (c) mass, and (d) atrophy, highlighting each of their key clinical and imaging findings. Anatomic muscle variants, while common, do not produce signal intensity alterations and therefore are easily overlooked. Muscle edema is the most common pattern but is nonspecific, with a broad differential diagnosis. Autoimmune, paraneoplastic, and drug-induced myositis tend to be symmetric, whereas infection, radiation-induced injury, and myonecrosis are focal asymmetric processes. Architectural distortion in the setting of muscle edema suggests one of these latter processes. Intramuscular masses include primary neoplasms, metastases, and several benign masslike lesions that simulate malignancy. Some lesions, such as lipomas, low-flow vascular malformations, fibromatoses, and subacute hematomas, are distinctive, but many intramuscular masses ultimately require a biopsy for definitive diagnosis. Atrophy is the irreversible end result of any muscle disease of sufficient severity and is the dominant finding in disorders such as the muscular dystrophies, denervation myopathy, and sarcopenia. This imaging-based classification, in correlation with clinical and laboratory data, will aid the radiologist in interpreting MR imaging findings in patients with atraumatic muscle disorders. RSNA, 2018.

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“…Lesions were confirmed by cytology and histopathology. Pallav et al (12) reported an unusual case of cysticercosis in the right soleus muscle that presented as acute calf pain and difficulty in walking. Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) for IgG antibodies against Taenia solium was positive, which confirmed the diagnosis.…”

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Schistosoma mansoni granulomas in the skeletal striated muscles in the murine model of neuroschistosomiasis: histological findings

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Brasileiro-Filho

Parreiras

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Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz

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Schistosomiasis mansoni presents many clinical manifestations during migration of schistosomes in their hosts, including diarrhea, hepatomegaly, splenomegaly, liver abscesses, skinlesions, brain tumors and myeloradiculopathy. No lesions have been reported in skeletal striated muscles due to schistosomiasis mansoni in the literature. This short communication reports the histopathological findings on skeletal musculature in a murine model of neuroeschistosomiasis mansoni. Lesions were found in the tongue, masseter muscle, buccinator muscle, digastric muscle and temporalis muscle. Worm recovery was carried out to confirm the infection. We describe here, for the first time in the literature, injuries in the skeletal musculature due to Schistosoma mansoni nfection.

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Cysticercosis of Soleus muscle presenting as isolated calf pain

Cited by 7 publications

References 11 publications

A rare case of isolated cysticercosis of brachialis muscle

A rare case of isolated cysticercosis of brachialis muscle

MR Imaging of Atraumatic Muscle Disorders

Schistosoma mansoni granulomas in the skeletal striated muscles in the murine model of neuroschistosomiasis: histological findings

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