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CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 · Indian J Plast Surg 2005; 38(02): 160-161
DOI: 10.1055/s-0039-1699094
Case Report
Association of Plastic Surgeons of India

Lingual cysticercosis

S C Pandey
Dental Surgeon, Provincial Medical and Health Services of the Stateof U.P.
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S D Pandey
Professor Emeritus ; King Georges Medical University, Lucknow
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15 January 2020 (online)

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Abstract

A fourtyfive year old male presented with a painless solitary nodular swelling near left lateral border of the tongue of two months duration. Fine needle aspiration cytology lead to no conclusion. Excisional biopsy was done. Histopathology revealed Cysticercosis cellulosae and the parasite could be visualised in the slide along with the tongue muscles.

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Lingual - Cysticercosis - Oral - Tongue - Taenia - Cellulosae
 
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