The patient’s condition, identified as cysticercosis, was caused by larval cysts of taenia solium (pork tapeworm) after ...
The condition occurred after the patient consumed undercooked pork, allowing the taenia solium parasite to form larval cysts ...
An ER doctor explained how a patient suffered a tapeworm infection, with an X-ray showing the larvae all over his pelvis and legs.
He explained: "This is a condition known as cysticercosis. Essentially these are larval cysts of taenia solium - also known ...
Dr Sam Ghali, an urgent care doctor from the University of Florida, took to social media to share an image of a patient with ...
A rare illness in Belgium that affected nine people was likely spread after the initial patient ate pork while abroad several years earlier. Human cysticercosis results from ingesting Taenia ...
It is possible that the individual may have made an unfortunate mistake in the kitchen that led to the parasites camping ...
A recent X-ray scan showcasing calcified parasites embedded throughout a patient's body has gone viral, highlighting the ...
Dr Sam Ghali, an Assistant Professor in Emergency Medicine at the University of Florida, shared the X-ray images in an ...
This is the disgusting and shocking scene which awaited medics giving an X-ray to a man whose body was filled with parasitic ...