Sudden death from cerebral cysticercosis.
A case of sudden death from cysticercosis cerebri is described. A 38-year-old Ecuadorian woman suffered from headache for a few weeks which was interpreted as migraine. Later she developed extremely severe headache with seizures and died. A forensic autopsy showed normal organs. Neuropathologic examination revealed cysticercosis racemosus with reactive chronic ependymitis and meningitis and secondary hydrocephalus.
Esberg
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Institute of Forensic Medicine, University of Aarhus, Denmark.
Reske-Nielsen
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D000328:Adult; D000818:Animals; D001927:Brain Diseases / Q000469:parasitology / Q000473:pathology; D002540:Cerebral Cortex / Q000473:pathology; D003551:Cysticercosis / Q000469:parasitology / Q000473:pathology; D003552:Cysticercus / Q000302:isolation & purification; D003645:Death, Sudden / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology; D003718:Denmark; D004484:Ecuador / Q000208:ethnology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans