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Stomach Acid vs. Parasites: What Happens Under a Microscope?

The Parasites Hide Inside Your Bones (And Show Up on X-Ray)? . Sometimes (rarely) imaging reveals a strange story. You may have seen the viral X-ray of a pelvis and thighs scattered with hundreds of small, rice-grain calcifications. That patient came in for a hip fracture. The incidental finding was cysticercosis, the larval stage of the pork tapeworm. The larvae migrate into muscle and soft tissue, form cysts, then die and calcify, leaving that unmistakable grain-of-rice pattern. One myth worth