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Solitary brain affection is rare in echinococcosis. We report the case of a 35-year-old woman presenting with symptomatic grand-mal epilepsy due to a right frontal, partially cystic space-occupying lesion. Pre-operative computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) suggested a cystic astrocytoma. However, histological examination yielded the diagnosis of a `chitinoma', a rare subtype of solid cerebral hydatid disease (echinococcosis). It mimicked a primary brain tumor and, therefore, posed a diagnostic problem. We present the – to our knowledge – first MRI scans in a case of a histologically proven chitinoma.
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Received: 4 June 1997 / Accepted: 19 August 1998
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Nanassis, K., Alexiadou-Rudolf, C., Tsitsopoulos, P. et al. Solid cerebral echinococcosis mimicking a primary brain tumor. Neurosurg Rev 22, 58–61 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/s101430050011
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s101430050011