Taenia crassiceps is a tapeworm whose adult form infests the intestine of carnivores of the Northern Hemisphere. Rodents and moles are natural intermediate hosts and larval stages of the tapeworm develop as cyst-like structures (cysticerci) subcutaneously or in their body cavities. Infection in humans is rare, with only eight cases having been reported to date. Most infections have occurred in immunosuppressed patients, skeletal muscles and subcutaneous tissue being the sites for parasite accumulation. In addition, a few immunocompetent patients with intraocular infection have been described. In this article, we report a soft tissue infection with this tapeworm in an immunocompetent patient. It is the first case diagnosed on a fine needle aspiration (FNA) cytology sample, confirmed by PCR.