Generalized Cysticercosis Cellulosæ

Cysticercosis Cellulosae of the Optic Disc with Generalized Cysticercosis.

CYSTICERCOSIS of the brain has been known for centuries and most of the earlier reports came from central Europe. MacArthur (1934) and Dixon and Hargreaves (1944) have aroused interest in the problem of cerebral cysticercosis recently. From India very many reports have been published about the cerebral manifestations of cysticercosis (Dogra and Ahern, 1935; Menon and Veliath, 1940; McRobert, 19...

cysticercosis . pseudohypertrophy in Generalized muscular

Cysticercosis usually presents with epilepsy (MacArthur, 1934) or intermittent obstructive hydrocephalus (Dixon & Lipscomb, 1961). Involvement of skeletal and cardiac muscle in cysticercosis usually remains silent. Although myalgic, nodular and pseudohypertrophic forms have been described, with pseudohypertrophy probably the rarest (Serre et al., 1970), painless, symmetrical massive enlargement...

Cysticercosis of the central nervous system with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: case report and review of the literature.

A case is described in which the clinical and pathological features of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) occurred in a patient with cysticercosis of the central nervous system and associated pachymeningitis of the cervical spinal cord. This is an extremely rare finding. The patient also presented the two symptom complexes more commonly encountered in this condition: focal and generalized epil...

Cysticercus Cellulosæ of Tongue

Solitary Head and Neck Cysticercosis: A Series of Rare Cases

Introduction: Cysticercosis is a disease which is caused by the infestation of the larvae Taenia solium, with humans acting as an intermediate host instead of a definitive host. Head and neck involvement including maxillofacial and oral involvement of cysticercosis is quite rare.  Case Report: We report a series of rare cases of cysticercosis of the head and neck region encountered in a tertia...