[Schistosomiasis of the spinal cord. Case report].

The authors report a case of a 34 year-old woman who, in the last four years, had travelled to Africa frequently, and developed a progressive clinical (about three months) dysfunction of the conus medullaris mainly consisting in sensitive disturbances. The MRI showed an intramedullary spinal cord lesion, and specific laboratory tests were negative. A biopsy for histologic diagnosis, showed a granulomatous tissue with eggs of S.