CEREBRAL GRANULOMA DUE TO SCHISTOSOMIASIS

24 January 1948

journal article
research article
Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in JAMA

Vol. 136 (4) , 230-238
https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.1948.02890210014003

Abstract

Cerebral schistosomiasis is rare and few operative cases have been reported in the literature. Bayoumi¹stated that Tsunoda and Schimamura²were the first to find Schistosoma japonicum eggs in the brain. Manson³noted the occasional occurrence of eggs of Schistosoma haematobium in the brain and spinal cord. Faust and Meleney⁴stated that Yamagiwa in 1890 mentioned the occurrence of jacksonian epilepsy in a patient with schistosomiasis japonica and that Houghton in 1910 also described a case in which he suspected that symptoms referable to the brain were due to the deposit of S. japonicum eggs. They indicated that such cases are rare. Spiridion⁵in 1936 described an outbreak of schistosomiasis japonica in China. Only three patients showed neurologic involvement. Egan⁶in 1936 reported 2 neurologic cases of schistosomiasis japonica in a series of 12 English sailors who went swimming in the Yangtze river near

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