An 18-year-old teenager inFaridabad, India, died from a rare case involving a tapeworm that laid eggs inside his brain. The unidentified teen was first taken to the emergency room of a hospital due to generalized tonic-clonic seizures, according to a case study released by The New England Journal of Medicine on Thursday. The teen's parents told doctors that he had been suffering pain in the groin for a week. When brought for physical examination, the patient was confused and had swelling in his right eye and tenderness in the right testis. A magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan showed that he had numerous well-defined cystic lesions throughout his brain. The lesions were...
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