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Pulmonary and cardiac cysticercosis: helical CT findings

Departments of ¹ Radiology and ² Pneumology, Hospital Julia Kubitschek, Belo Horizonte, ³ Department of Radiology, University Fluminense and of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, ⁴ University of Paraná, Curitiba, ⁵ School of Medicine of São José do Rio Preto, São José do Rio Preto, Brazil

Correspondence: Emerson L Gasparetto, R. Capote Valente 500 ap. 2215, 05409-000, São Paulo, SP, Brazil. E-mail: egasparetto{at}gmail.com.

The authors aim to report the chest CT findings of a patient with disseminated cysticercosis, emphasising the pulmonary and cardiac features. The main finding consisted of multiple pulmonary, cardiac and chest wall nodules. The present case demonstrates that cysticercosis should be considered in the differential diagnosis of multiple pulmonary nodules, mainly in those patients with similar lesions in the cardiac muscle and/or in the chest wall.

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