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


METHODS
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.
Department of Child Neurology, Medical University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland. neurdziec@slam.katowice.pl
Beata
B
Kazek
Ewa
E
Jamroz
Marek
M
Mandera
Grazyna
G
Bierzyńska-Macyszyn
Ewa
E
Kluczewska
Elzbieta
E
Marszał
D000818:Animals; D000927:Anticonvulsants / Q000627:therapeutic use; D000969:Antinematodal Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D001927:Brain Diseases / Q000382:microbiology* / Q000473:pathology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D002220:Carbamazepine / Q000627:therapeutic use; D002648:Child; D004827:Epilepsy / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000209:etiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007816:Larva Migrans, Visceral / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000473:pathology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008463:Mebendazole / Q000627:therapeutic use; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D017166:Toxocara canis
D000927:Anticonvulsants; D000969:Antinematodal Agents; D002220:Carbamazepine; D008463:Mebendazole