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Journal of Pediatric Neurology 2006; 04(03): 203-206
DOI: 10.1055/s-0035-1557331
Case Report
Georg Thieme Verlag KG Stuttgart – New York

Entrapment ulnar neuropathy caused by cysticercosis

Munni Ray
a   Department of Pediatrics, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India
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Kavitha Kothur
a   Department of Pediatrics, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India
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22 January 2006

15 March 2006

Publication Date:
29 July 2015 (online)

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Abstract

We report a 12-year-old child from North India with cysticercosis presenting as an ulnar entrapment neuropathy due to a compressive mass in the flexor digitorum profundus. Magnetic resonance imaging suggested an inflammatory mass compressing the neurovascular bundle. The histologic diagnosis was consistent with cysticercosis. Such solitary presentation of entrapment neuropathy with cysticercosis is extremely rare, and to our knowledge, this is the only case reported in pediatric literature.

Keywords

Ulnar nerve - entrapment neuropathy - cysticercosis