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A Case Report

MAJ W. KLEMME, MC

Arch Neurol. 1966;15(2):185-188.

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CEREBRAL infestation by Paragonimus westermani, the lung fluke, is well known in the Orient. The disease is rarely CEREBRAL countered by Western physicians. The following case is presented in the hope that it will be of interest as an example of a parasitic malady which, on occasion, warrants the attention of the neurologist and

A Case Report

A 17-year-old Korean boy was admitted to the Neurosurgical Section of the 121st Evacuation Hospital on April 12, 1962. It was learned that he had been seen in a US Army dispensary five months previously with complaints of chills, fever, and the insidious onset of hemoptysis. A roentgenogram of the chest was made at that time and revealed evidence of a large pleural effusion. Thoracocentesis was done several times and on each occasion yielded a large quantity of yellow fluid. Cultures of the effusion fluid failed to grow an organism. The patient . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
USA

From the Neurosurgery Service, Letterman General Hospital, San Francisco.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication Jan 24, 1966; accepted Feb 4.

Reprint requests to Neurosurgery Service, Letterman General Hospital, San Francisco 94129.

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