Recently, doctors in Guangzhou pulled out a 7 cm long live sparganum from the patient's uncle Tan's brain. To Uncle Tan's surprise, his infection with metacercaria may be related to swallowing 9 little frogs more than 20 years ago.
Uncle Tan is 50 years old. He is from Hunan and works in Shenzhen. At the beginning of last month, uncle Tan, who was preparing for his lunch break, suddenly twitched his hands and feet. Seeing this, the workmates immediately sent him to the local hospital for treatment. " It lasted about half an hour. When I woke up, I couldn't remember the situation at all. " Uncle Tan said.
The doctor found a lesion in the left frontal parietal lobe when looking at the MR of the head. It is considered that there is a greater possibility of sparganosis infection. " After being hospitalized for half a month, my hands and feet twitched inexplicably. " In order to seek further diagnosis and treatment, uncle Tan, accompanied by his family, transferred to Guangdong Sanjiu brain hospital.
After combining the medical history and improving relevant examinations, Lu Ming, vice president of the hospital and director of the Fifth Department of Neurosurgery, said that the lesions in the patient's left frontal parietal lobe may be related to sparganosis infection. Subsequently, Lu Ming's team performed resection of space occupying lesions in the left frontoparietal lobe under general anesthesia. During the operation, with the assistance of electrophysiological monitoring and neuronavigation positioning, a live sparganum with a length of about 7 cm was successfully removed, and all the surrounding granulomatous tissues were removed.
Uncle Tan recalled that more than 20 years ago, he was still working in a coal mine. He often bumped because the shaft was dark. Although there were no obvious scars on his skin, he always felt that he had internal injuries, especially in his left armpit. Uncle Tan said that there was a saying in the countryside of Hunan that he ate little frogs to promote blood circulation and remove silt to treat internal injuries. At that time, he believed in folk prescriptions and swallowed nine live frogs the size of a thumb.
Lu Ming said that uncle Tan's metacercaria infection may be related to his raw swallowing of live frogs. "Metacercaria are mostly parasitic in frogs, snakes and other wild animals. Swallowing live frogs, tadpoles and even raw snake bile may be infected."