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The lord of the broken rings: African porocephaliasis, an emerging radiological diagnosis in developed countries

Authors: M. Martinot, M. Mohseni-Zadeh, E. Candolfi

Published in: Infection | Issue 1/2017

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African porocephaliasis is a pathology encountered among natives of tropical African countries. While clinical symptoms caused by parasite migration are usually encountered in tropical countries [1, 2] clinicians and radiologists can be confronted with calcified larval parasites detected on X-rays performed for unrelated symptoms [3, 4]. We hereby report two cases of porocephaliasis discovered fortuitously on abdominal and chest X-ray in two African patients seen in medical consultation. …

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Title: The lord of the broken rings: African porocephaliasis, an emerging radiological diagnosis in developed countries
Authors: M. Martinot
M. Mohseni-Zadeh
E. Candolfi
Publication date: 01-02-2017
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in: Infection / Issue 1/2017
Print ISSN: 0300-8126
Electronic ISSN: 1439-0973
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s15010-016-0947-2

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