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Pseudofracture: An Acute Peripheral Tissue Trauma Model
Published on: April 18, 2011
A 'medical' diagnosis in the trauma clinic
Kosar Hussain1, Firas Jafar Kareem AlNajjar, Mohammad Javad Ahmad
1Department of Internal Medicine, Dubai Health Authority, Dubai, UAE. koshussain@dha.gov.ae
Abstract:
A previously healthy 27-year-old Nepalese man presented with a history of direct low-impact direct trauma to the left leg. An x-ray was performed in a private hospital and he was referred to our emergency department for the management of a possible foreign body in the left leg. X-ray of the left leg showed a single, small, 'cigar-shaped' calcified lesion in the posterior aspect of the left leg. There was an inconsistency between the injury and x-ray finding. As the patient originated from a region endemic in Taenia solium, a clinical suspicion for cysticercosis was raised. The patient was then sent for a skeletal survey which subsequently confirmed our diagnosis.
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