Teaching neuroimages: neurocysticercosis with subretinal cyst.

Teaching NeuroImages: Bruns syndrome caused by intraventricular neurocysticercosis.

A 24-year-old woman presented with 2 months of episodic vertigo, vomiting, and headache triggered by abrupt head movements, lasting from a few minutes to 1 hour. She was asymptomatic between the attacks and had mild gait ataxia on examination. Brain MRI revealed obstructive hydrocephalus and a cystic lesion in the fourth ventricle (figures 1 and 2). Her symptoms subsided after cyst excision; a ...

Spectral Domain Optical Coherence Tomography Features of Subretinal Cysticercus Cyst

A 31-year-old man of Asian descent presented with loss of vision in his right eye from 6 months earlier. Best corrected visual acuity (BCVA) was limited to light perception in the right eye and was 6/6, N6 in the left one. Slit lamp examination revealed normal anterior segments bilaterally. Intraocular pressure was 8 and 14 mmHg in the right and left eyes, respectively. Fundus examination in th...

Teaching NeuroImages: recurrence of a sural intraneural ganglion cyst after sural nerve resection.

Teaching NeuroImages: isolated cervical spinal cord cysticercosis.

A 23-year-old Brazilian man, a farmer in a rural area of Minas Gerais State, complained of an 8-month history of neck pain and upper-limb weakness. Flaccid tetraparesis, global hyperreflexia, and pyramidal signs were present. Cranial CT and brain MRI were normal. Spinal cord MRI showed an intramedullary tumoral lesion, extending from C3 to C5 vertebral bodies, with a cystic appearance (figure 1...

Teaching NeuroImages: Spontaneous resolution of a giant intracranial arachnoid cyst.

A giant arachnoid cyst (63 83 11 cm) of left middle cranial fossa was found incidentally in a 3-year-old boy with head MRI examination for increased head circumference (figure 1). Surgical intervention was refused by his parents since the boy was asymptomatic, and the patient was followed up. Repeated MRI performed 2 years later revealed disappearance of the cyst, and the compressed brain tissu...