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Chronic Neurocysticercosis in a Patient Presenting with Chest Pain

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Abstract

A 64-year-old woman presented to the emergency department (ED) with chest, left arm and jaw pain in the setting of severely elevated blood pressure. Patient subsequently noted chronic headaches as well and during workup for chronic headache was found to have chronic neurocysticeercosis.