AN INTERESTING CASE OF PARASITIC CYST OF THIGH

Cysticercosis is caused by cysticercus cellulosae, which is the larva of Taenia solium , the pork tapeworm. The larvae are carried in the blood stream after penetrating the walls of the alimentary tract and they lodge in different tissues like the skin, skeletal muscles, brain, fundus and heart, to cause disseminated cysticercosis. Cases of intermuscular cysticercosis have rarely been reported in the literature. They may inhabit the muscles and cause muscular hypertrophy, which, at times, may assume gross proportions. Morbidity is usually caused by the involvement of the central nervous system eye. The larval form can invade many tissues in humans, to cause disseminated cysticercosis. Generalized symmetrical pseudohypertrophy of muscles, in such conditions, has previously been reported only in twelve cases. We hereby present a case of parasitic cyst of thigh which posed a diagnostic dilemma.