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23cm-long tapeworm plucked from woman's brain
By Pan Zheng |
July 6, 2011, Wednesday
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Doctors in Jiangsu Provincial People's Hospital in Nanjing removed a 23-centimeter-long parasitic worm from the brain of a young woman a week ago, ending her six-month ordeal of tingling seizures, the local Yangtze Evening News reported today.
The 24-year-old Li Fang is now recovering from the surgery. She said she was still "horrified and disgusted" at the thought of that tapeworm which lived in her brain, the paper said.
Li's husband surnamed Yang said Li suffered her first seizure last December and she suddenly fell on the floor with the left side of her body paralyzed. Yang sent his wife to a local hospital which detected something in her brain but could not determine what it was. So the doctors prescribed some medicine to ease her convulsion and asked her to go home for observation.
The second seizure attacked in June. This time electroencephalogram scanning showed the strange object in her brain still existed. Yang and the hospital decided to operate on her brain.
After opening her skull, doctors found a granuloma in her brain which pressed against her brain nerves, thus triggering the seizures. As they were removing the granuloma, doctors suddenly found a long worm attached to it. It turned out to be a tapeworm, still alive and wriggling. This was the culprit of Li's troubles.
According to Chen Haifeng, deputy director of the hospital's neurosurgery department, Li liked to eat hotpot and barbeque. It was the under-cooked meat she ate that brought tapeworm eggs into her body.
The 24-year-old Li Fang is now recovering from the surgery. She said she was still "horrified and disgusted" at the thought of that tapeworm which lived in her brain, the paper said.
Li's husband surnamed Yang said Li suffered her first seizure last December and she suddenly fell on the floor with the left side of her body paralyzed. Yang sent his wife to a local hospital which detected something in her brain but could not determine what it was. So the doctors prescribed some medicine to ease her convulsion and asked her to go home for observation.
The second seizure attacked in June. This time electroencephalogram scanning showed the strange object in her brain still existed. Yang and the hospital decided to operate on her brain.
After opening her skull, doctors found a granuloma in her brain which pressed against her brain nerves, thus triggering the seizures. As they were removing the granuloma, doctors suddenly found a long worm attached to it. It turned out to be a tapeworm, still alive and wriggling. This was the culprit of Li's troubles.
According to Chen Haifeng, deputy director of the hospital's neurosurgery department, Li liked to eat hotpot and barbeque. It was the under-cooked meat she ate that brought tapeworm eggs into her body.
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