| cysticercosis in a female nicaraguan traveler. | cysticercosis is a tissue infestation with taenia solium (pork tapeworm) larvae and should feature in the differential diagnosis of all soft tissue swellings arising after travel to central and south america, eastern europe, china, and india. we describe a patient who presented 8 months after travel to nicaragua with pea-sized, intermittently tingling nodules in limbs and trunk and a lump in her mouth, which moved constantly. various british practitioners misdiagnosed the patient's complaint as ... | 2007 | 17883469 |