{"id":5133,"date":"2013-02-08T16:49:21","date_gmt":"2013-02-08T15:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sesc.cat\/not-always-cysticercosis\/"},"modified":"2022-04-20T20:01:07","modified_gmt":"2022-04-20T19:01:07","slug":"not-always-cysticercosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sesc.cat\/en\/not-always-cysticercosis\/","title":{"rendered":"Not always cysticercosis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The differential diagnosis of a lesion like this one should include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Bovine cysticercosis<\/strong>: First! The appearance of the lesion is compatible with a parasite vesicle. See entry on <a href=\"https:\/\/sesc.cat\/bovine-cysticercosis\/?lang=en\">bovine cysticercosis<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Other inflammatory lesions<\/strong>: Bacterial or Sarcocystis spp.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Congenital cysts<\/strong>: Typically located in the valves.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Neoplasms<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Although the macroscopic image was suggestive of bovine cysticercosis, the histopathological study showed that it was a\u00a0<strong>benign\u00a0<\/strong><strong>mesenchymal neoplastic proliferation<\/strong>, being in this case the most likely differential diagnosis a \u00a0myocardial adenomatoid tumor.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1384\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sesc.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/SESC-011-13-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1384\" class=\"size-large wp-image-6481\" src=\"https:\/\/sesc.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/SESC-011-13-2-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"The two halves of the nodule (arrows) located in the wall of the left ventricle make prominence after cutting.\" width=\"620\" height=\"465\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sesc.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/SESC-011-13-2-800x600.jpg 800w, https:\/\/sesc.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/SESC-011-13-2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sesc.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/SESC-011-13-2-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sesc.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/SESC-011-13-2.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1384\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The two halves of the nodule (arrows) located in the wall of the left ventricle make prominence after cutting.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1381\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sesc.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/SESC-011-13-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1381\" class=\"size-large wp-image-6475\" src=\"https:\/\/sesc.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/SESC-011-13-3-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Another view of the lesion (arrow) in the myocardium.\" width=\"620\" height=\"465\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sesc.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/SESC-011-13-3-800x600.jpg 800w, https:\/\/sesc.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/SESC-011-13-3-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sesc.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/SESC-011-13-3.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1381\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Another view of the lesion (arrow) in the myocardium.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1383\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sesc.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/SESC-011-13-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1383\" class=\"size-large wp-image-6479\" src=\"https:\/\/sesc.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/SESC-011-13-1-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Image of the nodule at higher magnification. Its prominence is evident after its sagittal section and also the important finding that there is no inflammatory reaction around it (usual\u00a0in Cysticercosis cases).\" width=\"620\" height=\"465\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sesc.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/SESC-011-13-1-800x600.jpg 800w, https:\/\/sesc.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/SESC-011-13-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sesc.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/SESC-011-13-1.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1383\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image of the nodule at higher magnification. Its prominence is evident after its sagittal section and also the important finding that there is no inflammatory reaction around it (usual\u00a0in Cysticercosis cases).<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The differential diagnosis of a lesion like this one should include: Bovine cysticercosis: First! The appearance of the lesion is compatible with a parasite vesicle. See entry on bovine cysticercosis. Other inflammatory lesions: Bacterial or Sarcocystis spp. Congenital cysts: Typically located in the valves. Neoplasms. Although the macroscopic image was suggestive of bovine cysticercosis, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":6477,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[171,247,255,249],"tags":[394,367,402],"class_list":["post-5133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bovine-2","category-heart-bovine-2","category-muscle-bovine-2","category-neoplasia-bovine-2","tag-heart-en","tag-neoplasia-en","tag-parasites-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sesc.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sesc.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sesc.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sesc.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sesc.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sesc.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sesc.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sesc.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sesc.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sesc.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}