{"id":7654,"date":"2019-06-17T13:10:21","date_gmt":"2019-06-17T13:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cmshub.wpengine.com\/?p=250919"},"modified":"2024-11-03T15:17:11","modified_gmt":"2024-11-03T15:17:11","slug":"doctors-think-woman-has-a-brain-tumor-but-then-they-open-her-skull-and-find-a-tapeworm-instead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/doctors-think-woman-has-a-brain-tumor-but-then-they-open-her-skull-and-find-a-tapeworm-instead\/","title":{"rendered":"Doctors Think Woman Has A Brain Tumor, But Then They Open Her Skull And Find A Tapeworm Instead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">Anyone need some nightmare fuel? Maybe a horrifying story about a tapeworm in someone\u2019s brain? Cool, coming right up!<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">Rachel Palma, a 42-year-old woman in New York, was experiencing strange symptoms for months, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.today.com\/health\/woman-s-brain-tumor-turns-out-be-parasite-growing-her-t155046\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Today<\/em> reports<\/a>. She was hallucinating, dropping things, and doing things that she didn\u2019t remember.<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">Doctors performed an MRI scan on Rachel\u2019s brain, and the images appeared to show a marble-sized brain tumor. Rachel steeled herself for a possible battle against brain cancer \u2014 chemotherapy, radiation, and surgery included.<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">But when doctors finally opened up Rachel\u2019s skull, they found something completely different.<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">There was no tumor, but instead they found \u201cthis very firm, very well encapsulated thing [that] looked like a quail egg.\u201d They removed the growth and sliced it open to see what it looked like inside.<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">\u201cSure enough, a baby tapeworm came out of that lesion,\u201d neurosurgeon Dr. Jonathan Rasouli <a href=\"https:\/\/www.today.com\/health\/woman-s-brain-tumor-turns-out-be-parasite-growing-her-t155046\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">told <em>Today<\/em><\/a>.<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">Hold on, gotta go scream into the void forever.<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-250921\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.thebreastcancersite.greatergood.com\/lt-brain-tumor-tapeworm\/\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"627\" class=\"size-large wp-image-250921 lazy\" data-src=\"https:\/\/d1dd4ethwnlwo2.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Tapeworm-Brain-Tumor-Scare-1200x627.jpg\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/d1dd4ethwnlwo2.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Tapeworm-Brain-Tumor-Scare.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/d1dd4ethwnlwo2.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Tapeworm-Brain-Tumor-Scare-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/d1dd4ethwnlwo2.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Tapeworm-Brain-Tumor-Scare-600x314.jpg 600w, https:\/\/d1dd4ethwnlwo2.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Tapeworm-Brain-Tumor-Scare-768x401.jpg 768w, https:\/\/d1dd4ethwnlwo2.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Tapeworm-Brain-Tumor-Scare-1000x523.jpg 1000w\" data-sizes=\"(min-width:1600px) 992px, (min-width:1200px) 768px, (min-width:518px) 480px, (min-width:325px) 320px, 300px\"\/><\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">Photo: YouTube\/Inside Edition<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">OK, back!<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">So the good news is that Rachel doesn\u2019t have cancer, and the process for removing the tapeworm was comparatively quick. She\u2019s now \u201cbasically cured,\u201d she explained.<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">The bad news is that there was a <em>tapeworm in her brain<\/em>. This is, apparently, a thing that can happen.<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">This type of tapeworm infection is called neurocysticercosis, and it comes from raw or undercooked pork. It\u2019s very rare in the United States but is more common in other regions of the world, like Latin America. Rachel has no idea how she contracted it and doesn\u2019t care to speculate.<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">To minimize your risk of tapeworms and other parasite infections, wash your fruits and veggies before you eat them, and thoroughly cook all meat. Be especially cautious when traveling.<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">Learn more in this video.<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\"><span class=\"empty\">Proper BCS greatergood_ctg_abovevideo<\/span><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.thebreastcancersite.greatergood.com\/lt-brain-tumor-tapeworm\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone need some nightmare fuel? Maybe a horrifying story about a tapeworm in someone\u2019s brain? Cool, coming right up!Rachel Palma, a 42-year-old woman in New York, was experiencing strange symptoms for months, Today reports. She was hallucinating, dropping things, and doing things that she didn\u2019t remember.Doctors performed an MRI scan on Rachel\u2019s brain, and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7655,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7654"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45773,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7654\/revisions\/45773"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}