Bouchaud O, Matheron S
Praticien hospitalier, service des Maladies infectieuses et tropicales, Hôpital Bichat-Claude-Bernard.
Bull Soc Pathol Exot. 1996;89(1):31-2.
We describe a case of porocephalosis diagnosed in a 50 year old Gabonese male hospitalized in France for a HIV-related renal insufficiency. A standard abdominal radiography showed numerous ring-shaped calcifications, predominantly in the hepatic area. This aspect was very suggestive of the diagnosis in a patient living in Central Africa and eating occasionally meat of snake. The parasites live normally in the lungs of snakes (python, Bitis sp.). People become infected in eating undercooked snake or in handling snakes. In the majority of cases, the disease is asymptomatic and diagnosis made accidentally as in the case of our patient.
我们描述了一例在法国住院治疗与HIV相关肾功能不全的50岁加蓬男性中诊断出的猪囊尾蚴病病例。标准腹部X线检查显示大量环形钙化，主要位于肝脏区域。这种表现强烈提示了一名生活在中非且偶尔食用蛇肉的患者的诊断。这些寄生虫通常寄生于蛇（蟒蛇、咝蝰属）的肺部。人因食用未煮熟的蛇肉或接触蛇而感染。在大多数情况下，该病无症状，就像我们的患者一样是偶然诊断出来的。
