A Case of Cerebral Paragonimiasis. |
Jin Young Lee, Byung Chun Suh, In Joon Seol, Heung Jae Lee, Keun Soo Lee |
Department of Pediatrics,Cellege of Medicine,Hanyang University, Seoul,Korea |
Cerebral Paragonimiasis 1례 |
이진영, 서병천, 설인준, 이흥재, 이근수 |
한양대학교 의과대학 소아과학교실 |
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Abstract |
The authors experienced a case of cerebral paragonimiasis with severe eosinophilia in a 13 year old female patient.
Since several years ago, she frequently drank spring water with her family, especially, with her father. She came to the hospital because of speech disturbance, weakness of right upper extremity and maculopapular skin rashes of lower half of body. In her family history, her father has also been suffering from chronic cough with bloody
sputum since several months ago.Diagnosis was confirmed by laboratory and radiologic findings. A brief reveiw of literature was made.
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Key Words:
Cerebral paragonimiasis |
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