tenia solium , a parasite causes cysticercous cellulose when affecting the central nervous system, the manifestation is called neurocysticercosis. the most common symptom in neurocysticercosis is seizure. generally, oral diagnosticians come across cases of oral cysticercosis and it is rare to find a case of neurocysticercosis in the dental office, as it goes unde-tected. sometimes, when patient...

Neurocysticercosis is the most common parasitic infection of nervous system. However, improvement in public health made prevalence neurocysticercosis low. may have symptoms such as seizures, headache, and hydrocephalus, calcified generally known to be asymptomatic inert. Also, status epilepticus associated with has been rarely reported. Therefore, we report a case focal caused by that invaded s...

neurocysticercosis, is the infection caused by the larval form of the tapeworm taenia solium. it is considered as the most common parasitic disease of the central nervous system and the most common cause of acquired epilepsy. this has primarily been a disease that remains endemic in countries with poor economy , but because of increased migration neurocysticercosis is being diagnosed more frequ...

INTRODUCTION Neurocysticercosis is endemic in the developing world, but is becoming more common in the United States due to immigration. CASE PRESENTATION A 26-year-old Caucasian man presented with headache, nausea and vomiting and was found to have hydrocephalus and meningitis. Brain imaging and immunological studies were suggestive of neurocysticercosis. Endoscopic removal of the cyst resul...

Sir, There are many reports on ocular motility disturbances–caused by neurocysticercosis of brainstem[1-3] and fourth ventr icular neurocysticercosis cyst[4] in the available literature, but isolated one and a half syndrome due to neurocysticercosis has not been reported. We describe a patient with one and a half syndrome without any other brainstem signs, caused by neurocysticercosis involving...

2. Escobar A. The pathology of neurocysticercosis. In cysticercosis of Central nervous system. Placio E Robriguez Carabasal I, Taveras J (eds). Spring field IL; CC Thomas, 1983;27-54. Fig. 2 : MRI brain sagittal section hypointense T1 image showing multiple vesicular stage neurocysticercosis Fig. 1 : MRI brain transverse section hypointense T1 image showing multiple vesicular stage neurocystice...

The report on “neurocysticercosis and afebrile seizure” is very interesting. SAHU et al. noted that “neurocysticercosis should be suspected in every child presenting with afebrile seizure especially with a radio-imaging supportive diagnosis in tropical developing countries or areas endemic for teniasis/cysticercosis”. In fact, neurocysticercosis is a very important tropical neurological infecti...

Neurocysticercosis diagnosis is based on a combination of clinical, epidemiological, radiological, and immunological findings. We describe a real-time PCR assay for the confirmation of neurocysticercosis diagnosis in cerebrospinal fluid. The assay, tested on samples from nine patients living in France and diagnosed with neurocysticercosis, had a detection rate of 83.3% and 100% specificity.

Neurocysticercosis represents an important cause of seizures in children in endemic countries, such as Latin America, Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, while in Europe, especially in Italy, the cases of neurocysticercosis are anectodal. We report the case of a 6 year old boy, born and lived for four years in Cameroon, who presented a right emiconvulsion. The diagnosis was neurocysticercosis. This ca...

Neurocysticercosis, brain infection with Taenia solium larval cysts, causes substantial neurologic illness around the world. To assess the effect of neurocysticercosis in the United States, we reviewed hospitalization discharge data in the Nationwide Inpatient Sample for 2003-2012 and found an estimated 18,584 hospitalizations for neurocysticercosis and associated hospital charges totaling >US ...