title: A 'medical' diagnosis in the trauma clinic.
abstract: A previously healthy 27-year-old Nepalese man presented with a history of direct low-impact direct trauma to the left leg. An x-ray was performed in a private hospital and he was referred to our emergency department for the management of a possible foreign body in the left leg. X-ray of the left leg showed a single, small, 'cigar-shaped' calcified lesion in the posterior aspect of the left leg. There was an inconsistency between the injury and x-ray finding. As the patient originated from a region endemic in Taenia solium, a clinical suspicion for cysticercosis was raised. The patient was then sent for a skeletal survey which subsequently confirmed our diagnosis.
authors.affiliation: Department of Internal Medicine, Dubai Health Authority, Dubai, UAE. koshussain@dha.gov.ae
authors.forename: Kosar
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Hussain
authors.forename: Firas Jafar Kareem
authors.initials: FJ
authors.lastname: AlNajjar
authors.forename: Mohammad Javad
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Ahmad
authors.forename: Sahar
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Hussain
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003551:Cysticercosis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed