Cerebral localization of the larval form of Echinococcus granulosus is a rare occurrence (1-4% of cases of hydatidosis) [1 ] , and usually produces solitary large unilocular (hydatid) cysts located in the supratentorial compartment [2-4]. We report the plain and contrast-enhanced MR appearance of a histologically proved pontine hydatid cyst that was adjacent to a multicystic acoustic neurinoma ...

Case Report K., a 35-year-old farmer (N.S. 350), was admitted to the Neurosurgical Unit, Government General Hospital, Madras, India, in 1951, for inability to move the lower limbs. The onset of his illness dated back to about nine months before admission when he noticed weakness, together with a heavy feeling of the lower limbs progressing to loss of sensation. Both these symptoms progressed so...