Cerebral Paragonimiasis

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Abstract
CEREBRAL infestation by Paragonimus westermani, the lung fluke, is well known in the Orient. The disease is rarely CEREBRAL countered by Western physicians. The following case is presented in the hope that it will be of interest as an example of a parasitic malady which, on occasion, warrants the attention of the neurologist and A Case Report A 17-year-old Korean boy was admitted to the Neurosurgical Section of the 121st Evacuation Hospital on April 12, 1962. It was learned that he had been seen in a US Army dispensary five months previously with complaints of chills, fever, and the insidious onset of hemoptysis. A roentgenogram of the chest was made at that time and revealed evidence of a large pleural effusion. Thoracocentesis was done several times and on each occasion yielded a large quantity of yellow fluid. Cultures of the effusion fluid failed to grow an organism. The patient

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