The cerebral form of toxocarosis in a seven-year-old patient

Folia Neuropathol. 2006;44(1):72-6.

Abstract

Introduction: Toxocarosis is a consequence of human infection by Toxocara canis larvae. There are symptomatic (visceral, ocular) and asymptomatic courses of toxocarosis. The cerebral form is very rare.

Case report: We present a seven-year-old patient who developed a cerebral form of toxocarosis. She demonstrated focal neurological symptoms (epilepsy) confirmed by neuro-imaging and histopathological examinations. A positive test for toxocarosis essentially completed the other outcomes. On the basis of the clinical picture and the conducted tests a diagnosis of a cerebral form of toxocarosis was established. Mebendazole was applied in treatment.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Anticonvulsants / therapeutic use
  • Antinematodal Agents / therapeutic use
  • Brain Diseases / microbiology*
  • Brain Diseases / pathology*
  • Brain Diseases / physiopathology
  • Carbamazepine / therapeutic use
  • Child
  • Epilepsy / drug therapy
  • Epilepsy / etiology
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Larva Migrans, Visceral / drug therapy
  • Larva Migrans, Visceral / pathology*
  • Larva Migrans, Visceral / physiopathology
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Mebendazole / therapeutic use
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed
  • Toxocara canis*

Substances

  • Anticonvulsants
  • Antinematodal Agents
  • Carbamazepine
  • Mebendazole