A disturbing X-ray image shared by an emergency room doctor has revealed thousands of calcified tapeworm cysts throughout a patient's pelvis and legs. Dr Sam Ghali, Assistant Professor in Emergency ...

A man was left in horror after an X-ray revealed his body was riddled with tapeworm eggs. The image shows hundreds of 'rice grain' nodules that turned out to be cysts caused by the parasitic ...

Essentially, these are larval cysts of taenia solium — also known as the pork tapeworm ... gives them this classic appearance known as rice grain calcification.” Ghail maintained that ...