Isolated Cerebral Alveolar Echinococcosis

Aurélie Baldolli; Julie Bonhomme; Hélène Yera; Frederic Grenouillet; Françoise Chapon; Charlotte Barbier; Pascal Hazera; Renaud Verdon

doi:10.1093/ofid/ofy349

Isolated Cerebral Alveolar Echinococcosis

Open Forum Infect Dis. 2018 Dec 14;6(1):ofy349. doi: 10.1093/ofid/ofy349. eCollection 2019 Jan.

Authors

Aurélie Baldolli^{1

2}, Julie Bonhomme³, Hélène Yera⁴, Frederic Grenouillet⁵, Françoise Chapon⁶, Charlotte Barbier⁷, Pascal Hazera⁸, Renaud Verdon^{1

2

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Affiliations

¹ Infectious Diseases Department, CHU de Caen, Caen, France.
² Groupe de Recherche sur l'Adaptation Microbienne (GRAM 2.0), Normandie University, UNICAEN Caen, PFRS, Caen, France.
³ Microbiology Department, CHU de Caen, Caen, France.
⁴ Department of Parasitology-Mycology, Faculty of Medicine, Université Paris Descartes, Hôpitaux Universitaire Paris Centre, Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris, CHU Cochin, Paris, France.
⁵ Chrono-environnement, UMR UBFC/CNRS 6249 aff, INRA, CHRU Besançon, Parasitology and Mycology Department, French National Reference Center for Alveolar Echinococcosis and WHO Collaborating Center for Prevention and Treatment of Human Echinococcosis, Besançon France.
⁶ Department of Pathology, CHU de Caen, Caen, France.
⁷ Department of Radiology, CHU de Caen, Caen, France.
⁸ Intensive Care Unit Department, CH Saint-Lô, Saint-Lo, France.
⁹ Université Caen Normandie, UFR de médecine (Medical School), Caen, France.

Abstract

Cerebral alveolar echinococcosis (AE) is rare and mostly associated with liver involvement. We report an exceptional case of a 62-year-old man with a hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia harboring a primary cerebral AE mimicking neurocysticercosis with >100 cerebral lesions and without liver involvement.

Keywords: Echinococcus multilocularis; abscess; cerebral; primary lesion.